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THE  LIBRARY 

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PRUVO,  UTAH 


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Seal  of  Capt.   Thomas  Carter,  Sr., 

"Barford,"   Lancaster   County,   Virginia. 

(Signature   of  his   grandson   Joseph   Carter). 


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Signature    of    Maj.    Edward    Dale,    1664. 

Signature   of   Capt.   Thomas   Carter,   Sr.,   1700. 

Seal   showing   Dale   crest. 


1652 — 1912 


THE  DESCENDANTS 

OF 

Capt.  Thomas  Carter 

OF 

"Barford"  Lancaster  County,  Virginia 


WITH     GENEALOGICAL    NOTES    OF 
MANY    OF   THE   ALLIED     FAMILIES 


BY 

JOSEPH   LYON    MILLER,  M.  D. 

MEMBER   OF   THE    VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY, 

THE    WEST    VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   SOCIETY, 

THE    FILSON    CLUB    (KY.),    ETC. 


FOR   SALE   BY 
DR.   J.   L.   MILLER,    THOMAS,  W.  VA. 


THE  LIBRARY 

BR1GHAM  YOUNG  UNIVERSITY 
PROVO,  UTAH 


How  To  Use  This  Book 

In  tracing  your  line  of  Carter  ancestry  back  to  Capt.  Thomas 
Carter,  of  Barford,  Lancaster  County,  Va.,  first  by  means  of  the 
index,  find  yourself  or  the  parent,  through  whom  you  trace ;  then 
by  means  of  the  name  numbers  follow  your  line  back  till  you  come 
to  the  son  of  Capt.  Thomas,  from  whom  you  descend.  The  book 
has  been  divided  into  sections,  each  of  which  is  devoted  to  an  ac- 
count of  a  son  of  Captain  Carter  and  his  descendants. 


VLo  fflv  Jfflotfjer 


FINETTA  ANNE  LYONS, 
(Mrs,  Henderson  Miller), 
From    whom    I    derive    my    Carter    blood,    this    history 
of   her   people    is   affectionately    dedicated. 


PREFACE 

Not  many  persons  but  at  some  time  long  to  open  the  chronicles 
of  the  past  and  read  the  records  of  their  ancestors  ;  for,  as  Edward 
Everett  says,  "There  is  no  man  of  culture  who  does  not  take 
an  interest  in  what  was  done  by  his  forefathers." 

"Beneath  the  roots  of  tangled  weeds, 

Afar  in  country  graveyards,  lie 
The  men  whose  unrecorded  deeds 

Have  stamped  this  nation's  destiny. ' 

Genealogy  has  a  wider  field  of  usefulness  than  that  of  merely 
promoting  family  pride.  Among  other  things  may  be  mentioned 
the  collection  and  preservation  of  much  that  is  valuable  in  ancient 
manners  and  customs,  and  the  putting  in  easy  reach  of  the 
present  day  historians  new  and  authentic  ideas  as  to  the  source 
of  our  colonial  population  and  their  social  and  political  character- 
istics. 

This  volume  is  the  record  of  a  family  that  for  two  hundred 
and  sixty  years  has  played  a  part  in  the  social,  political  and 
military  life  of  the  Old  Dominion  and  other  States  to  the  south 
and  west.  While  many  have  held  high  places  of  trust  and  honor, 
the  majority  have  not  been  men  of  great  wealth  and  public 
position,  yet  it  is  to  their  credit  that  they  were  good  citizens, 
leading  honorable  lives — acting  well  their  part  in  the  local  affairs 
of  their  neighborhoods,  and  always  finding  a  place  on  the  battle- 
field for  principle's  sake.  We  should  not  love  our  kindred  alone 
for  their  genius  and  glory,  but  also  for  their  homely  virtues 
and  domestic  affections  that  expanded  and  flourished  unob- 
served save  by  the  little  world  in  which  they  moved. 

The  first  of  the  family  in  Virginia  was  Capt.  Thomas  Carter, 
planter  and  tobacco  trader,  said  to  have  been  the  son  of  a  London 
merchant,  though  it  is  pretty  well  established  that  "gentle  blood 
coursed  through  his  veins."    Among  his  descendants  have  been 


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vestrymen,  justices,  sheriffs,  legislators,  congressmen,  circuit  and 
supreme  court  judges  and  candidates  for  Governor ;  and  in  military 
affairs  they  have  ranged  from  private  to  brigadier-general.  In 
the  hundreds  of  wills,  deeds  and  other  papers  of  the  Carter 
family  examined,  but  one  man  made  his  mark ;  and  in  the  in- 
ventories of  their  personal  estates  for  two  and  a  half  centuries 
the  possession  of  books  is  recorded  in  all. 

A  noticeable  fact  is  that  many  of  the  Carters  of  Virginia  as  well 
as  elsewhere,  though  they  cannot  give  a  connected  account  of  their 
ancestry  beyond  the  Revolution,  are  by  "tradition"  descendants 
famous  old  "King  Carter  of  Corotoman,"  whose  immense  wealth 
has  enabled  his  descendants  to  hold  on  to  the  splendid  old  homes 
of  his  sons,  and  the  frequent  appearance  in  print  of  accounts 
of  these  has  done  much  to  spread  and  maintain  this  idea.  These 
"traditions"  have  been  particularly  hard  to  shake  even  in  the 
light  of  comprehensive  data  to  the  contrary  from  the  original 
public  records,  and  in  a  few  instances  I  fear  the  families,  like 
the  proverbial  woman,  convinced  against  their  will  are  of  the 
same  opinion  still — with  them  it  is  ant  Ccesar  aut  nnllus.  A 
writer  in  The  Times-Dispatch  a  few  years  ago  said:  "Almost 
everybody  by  the  name  of  Carter  aspires  to  be  descended  from 
that  lordly  old  John  of  Corotoman,  whose  son  Robert  is  the  only 
Virginian  who  rejoiced  in  the  name  of  'King.'  He  made  the 
high-water  mark  of  Virginia  Carters.  So  prominent  were  these 
Corotoman  Carters  that  one  is  apt  to  conclude  that  really  no  other 
Carters  are  worth  a  moment's  notice.  Such  however  is  far  from 
being  the  case."  I  believe  that  the  following  pages  will  show 
that  during  the  same  period  there  was  another  Carter  family 
in  Virginia  to  which  no  one  need  be  ashamed  to  belong,  though 
it  has  never  possessed  as  great  wealth  nor  been  allied  with  as 
many  of  the  really  great  families  of  the  Old  Dominion.  However, 
their  marriages  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries  con- 
nected this  Carter  family  with  the  Dales,  Skipwiths,  Balls,  Thorn- 
tons, Fitzhughs,  Masons,  Chews,  Beverleys,  Armisteads  and  other 
well  known  families,  and  in  the  early  nineteenth  century  with 
the  Washingtons,  Lees,  Pages,  Pendletons,  Blands,  Bacons,  Talia- 
ferros,  Marshalls  and  others. 


PREFACE 

While  there  were  a  number  of  Carter  emigrants  to  Virginia 
during  the  seventeenth  century,  but  five  of  them  seem  to  have 
been  of  any  prominence,  judging  from  their  possessions,  political 
preferment,  etc.     They  were : 

i  st.  William  Carter,  who  patented  more  than  two  thousand 
acres  in  the  county  of  James  City  between  1635  and  1640;  and 
doubtless  was  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  Carter  families  found 
in  James  City  county  and  Surry  and  adjacent  Southside  counties 
in  the  next  century,  among  whom  were  Dr.  James  Carter,  of 
Williamsburg,  about  the  middle  of  the  18th  century,  and  Dr. 
Thomas  Carter  of  the  Revolution.  The  loss  of  the  James  City 
records  precludes  the  writing  of  a  history  of  this  family. 

2d.  Col.  Edward  Carter,  who  settled  in  Nansemond  County 
prior  to  1650,  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  Coun- 
cil, colonel  of  militia,  etc.  He  purchased  large  plantations  on 
the  Rappahannock  in  Lancaster  County,  but  probably  never 
lived  on  them ;  returned  to  England,  where  his  will  probated  in 
1682  styles  him  as  "Edward  Carter,  Esq.  of  Edmonton,  Middle- 
sex."   So  far  as  known  he  has  no  descendants  in  Virginia. 

3d.  Col.  John  Carter,  who  settled  in  Nansemond  County 
prior  to  1650,  was  a  colonel  of  militia,  justice,  Burgess,  member 
of  the  Councill,  etc.  About  1650  purchased  several  thousand 
acres  of  land  on  Corotoman  River,  Lancaster,  to  which  he  re- 
moved and  founded  the  famous  "Corotoman"  estate  of  this  Car- 
ter family.  He  died  comparatively  young  in  1669,  but  in  the 
meantime  had  had  five  wives,  one  of  whom  was  a  daughter  of 
Cleve  Carter  of  England.  In  this  connection  the  following  notes 
may  be  of  interest:  Thomas  Carter  of  Somerset,  descended 
from  Thomas  Carter,  Gent,  of  Crumdale,  County  Kent,  died  in 
1603  leaving  issue — George,  eldest  son;  Thomas  of  Winchauck, 
yeoman  (born  in  1592),  Christopher,  Jonas,  Richard,  and  Cleve. 
This  Cleve  Carter  may  have  been  the  Gyve  Carter,  aged  25 
years,  of  St.  Alphage,  Canterbury,  Woolendraper,  who  obtained 
a  license  April  17,  1624,  to  marry  Elizabeth  Boys,  aged  19  years, 
daughter  of  Edward  Boys  of  Boneington,  parish  of  Goodnestone. 
They  might  have  had  a  daughter  who  married  Col.  John  Carter 


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of  Va.  Col.  John  Carter  of  "Corotoman"  left  three  sons — John, 
the  eldest,  died  without  male  issue ;  Charles,  the  youngest,  died 
unmarried,  and  Robert,  the  second  son,  was  the  famous  Robert 
Carter  of  "Corotoman"  and  ancestor  of  all  of  this  family  of  Car- 
ters. Numerous  accounts  of  this  family  have  been  published, 
and  the  late  Mr.  Robert  Carter  of  "Shirley"  and  his  daughter 
some  years  ago  prepared  an  extensive  chart  of  the  family  in  both 
male  and  female  branches. 

4th.  Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  who  came  to  Virginia  prior  to 
1652 — it  is  thought  to  Nansemond  County — was  a  captain  of 
militia,  justice,  deputy  clerk  of  his  county,  Burgess  (  ?),  etc. 
Purchased  a  large  plantation  on  Corotoman  River  from  Col. 
John  Carter  and  was  settled  there  in  1652.  Of  his  descendants 
this  volume  is  the  first  published  account,  except  some  preliminary 
notes  in  the  William  and  Mary  Quarterly. 

5th.  Giles  Carter,  who  came  to  Virginia  several  years  later 
than  the  others,  and  died  in  Henrico  County  in  1701  at  the  age 
of  67  years,  leaving  sons  Giles  and  Theodorick,  and  daughters 
Mrs.  Davis  and  Mrs.  Williamson.  So  far  as  known  he  never 
held  any  military  or  political  position,  and  is  supposed  to  have 
belonged  to  the  Gloucestershire  Carters.  His  descendants  were 
chiefly  settled  in  Henrico,  Goochland,  Prince  Edward,  and  Hali- 
fax counties.  An  interesting  account  of  them  has  been  published 
by  Gen.  W.  H.  G.  Carter,  U.  S.  A. 

In  some  counties  in  Virginia  the  untangling  of  the  Carter 
lines  has  been  very  trying,  as  in  addition  to  two  or  three  branches 
of  the  Thomas  Carter  family  there  was  also  one  or  more  branches 
of  the  descendants  of  Col.  John  Carter  and  Giles  Carter.  As  for 
example  in  the  small  section  of  Southwest  Virginia,  now  in  the 
county  of  Scott,  there  settled  between  the  years  1772  and  1795 
the  following  Carters :  Thomas,  Joseph,  and  Norris  Carter,  sons 
of  Peter  Carter  of  Fauquier;  Dale,  John,  and  Charles  Carter, 
sons  of  Charles  Carter  of  Amherst,  a  brother  of  Peter  of  Fau- 
quier;  John  Carter,  Sr.,  and  sans  John  and  Landon,  supposed 
to  have  been  of  the  Corotoman  Carters — later  removed  to  Ten- 
nessee ;  Joseph  and  John  Carter,  who  came  direct  from  England ; 


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and  in  the  next  decade  William  Carter,  supposed  to  have  be- 
longed to  the  Giles  Carter  family,  and  Richard  Carter  from 
North  Carolina.  Most  of  them  were  opposed  to  race  suicide, 
left  large  families  and  few  records,  many  of  their  descendants 
intermarrying  until  some  of  the  present  generation  are  descended 
from  at  least  four  of  the  original  emigrants. 

Unfortunately  many  invaluable  public  records,  as  well  as  fam- 
ily papers,  have  been  lost  through  the  ravages  of  time,  fire,  and 
war.  Much,  however,  remains,  and  it  has  been  my  endeavor  to 
collect  and  perpetuate  this  in  the  present  form  for  future  genera- 
tions of  the  family.  In  the  following  pages  I  have  tried  to  give 
more  than  a  mere  genealogical  skeleton  of  names  and  dates  by 
giving  little  peculiarities,  description  of  personal  belongings,  ex- 
tracts from  old  letters,  diaries,  and  other  interesting  data  relative 
to  the  family.  At  this  point  may  say  that  I  have  shown  no  in- 
tentional partiality  to  one  branch  over  another,  the  difference  in 
the  accounts  being  in  the  amount  of  material  available.  The 
criticism  may  be  advanced  that  I  have  included  too  many  of 
these  unimportant  details,  rendering  the  work  cumbersome  to 
the  genealogical  worker ;  and  that  many  of  the  accounts  of  the 
allied  families,  being  only  extracts  from  printed  works,  might 
well  have  been  omitted.  In  reply  will  say  that  this  book  is  in- 
tended primarily  for  the  members  of  the  Carter  family,  and  it  is 
thought  that  no  detail  of  the  lives  of  their  ancestors  will  be 
without  interest  to  them.  The  notes  of  the  allied  families  are 
included  to  give  them  in  accessible  form  some  data  of  their  an- 
cestors other  than  Carter.  It  is  hoped  that  the  index  will  make 
the  book  useful  to  genealogical  workers  as  well.  Since  my  pre- 
liminary account  in  the  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  the  dis- 
covery of  the  old  Carter  Prayer  Book  and  other  family  records 
have  made  necessary  some  changes  in  the  branches  as  formerly 
traced.  After  1800  the  accounts  are  given  on  the  authority  of 
one  or  more  members  of  the  branch  in  question;  previous  to 
that  year  they  are  based  on  original  public  or  private  records. 

But  few  of  the  earlier  female  branches  of  the  family  have 
been  traced,  and  many  of  the  male  branches  were  lost  during 
the  "scattering  time"  near  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century, 


PREFACE 

when  there  was  such  an  exodus  from  the  older  counties  of  Vir- 
ginia to  newer  sections  of  that  State  or  other  States  to  the  south 
and  west — the  emigrants  forgetting  to  leave  behind  in  the  public 
records  their  new  address. 

Delightful  have  been  the  weeks  spent  in  the  clerks'  offices 
among  the  quaint  and  interesting  records  of  past  generations, 
and  in  the  great  libraries  in  Richmond,  Baltimore,  Washington, 
and  Lexington,  Ky.  Of  meeting  and  corresponding  with  many 
interesting  members  of  the  family,  and  gathering  from  all  these 
sources  extracts  from  the  faded  records,  traditions,  old  letters, 
papers,  pictures,  etc.,  and  then  fitting  them  to  each  other  like 
putting  together  the  fragments  of  a  piece  of  broken  china. 

The  following  pages  have  been  written  at  spare  moments 
caught  from  professional  duties,  and  the  few  who  read  them  will 
not  realize  more  fully,  or  regret  more  sincerely,  their  faults  than 
the  author. 

Joseph  Lyon  Miller. 

Thomas,  West  Virginia,  March  19,  1912. 


Authorites  Consulted 

Original. 

Wills,  deeds,  marriage  bonds,  guardians'  bonds,  court  orders, 
etc.,  recorded  in  the  Virginia  counties  of: 

Lancaster,  Albemarle, 

Northumberland,  Amherst, 

Westmoreland,  Henrico, 

Old  Rappahannock,  Goochland, 

Essex,  Cumberland, 

Richmond,  Pittsylvania, 

Stafford,  Halifax, 

King  George,  Amelia, 

Caroline,  Nottoway, 

Prince  William,  Mecklenburg, 

Spotsylvania,  Bedford, 

Fairfax,  Washington, 

Culpeper,  Russell, 

Fauquier,  Lee, 

Orange,  Scott. 

The  existing  records  of  the  parishes  of — Christ  Church  and 
White  Chapel,  Lancaster ;  St.  Stephen's,  Northumberland ;  Farn- 
ham,  Richmond ;  Overwharton,  Stafford ;  Stratton  Major,  King 
and  Queen ;  Kingston,  Gloucester ;  and  Dettingen,  Prince  Wil- 
liam. 

Land  Grant  and  Revolutionary  War  records  in  Richmond. 

Carter  family  records  in — The  Thomas  Carter  Prayer  Book, 
1670-1782;  Joseph  Carter  (Spotsylvania)  records  1720-1812  in 
Davis  Bible;  Jeremiah  Carter  (Stafford)  Bible,  1720-1778; 
Thomas  Carter  (Pittsylvania)  Bible,  1734-1847;  John  Carter 
(Spotsylvania)  Bible,  1757-1843;  William  Carter  (Nottoway) 
Bible,  1771-1851 ;  several  other  Carter  Bibles  beginning  between 
1775  and  1800. 


Al'TIIORITIES  CONSULTED 

Norbourne  Sutton  MSS.  account  of  the  Spotsylvania  Carters, 
1845;  and  the  John  Carter  MSS.  account  of  the  Carter  Family, 
1858;  original  letters,  deeds,  commissions,  etc.  Records  of  Wood- 
ford and  Fayette  Counties,  Ky.,  etc. 

Printed. 
Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  19  volumes;  William  and  Mary 
Quarterly,  19  volumes;  West  Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  5 
volumes ;  Meade's  Old  Churches  and  Families ;  Crozier's  Virginia 
Heraldica,  Early  Virginia  Marriages,  Colonial  Militia,  and  Wil- 
liamsburg Wills ;  Stanard's  Colonial  Virginia  Register ;  Hayden's 
Virginia  Genealogies ;  Hardy's  Colonial  Families  of  the  South- 
ern States ;  Neale's  Old  King  William  Homes  and  Families ; 
Summer's  History  of  Southwest  Virginia ;  Cartmell's  Pioneers 
of  the  Shenandoah  Valley;  Boogher's  Gleanings  from  Virginia 
History ;  Bagby's  History  of  King  &  Queen  County ;  Scott's 
Hist,  of  Orange  County ;  Greene's  History  of  Culpeper  County ; 
Wood's  History  of  Albemarle  County;  Waddell's  and  Peyton's 
Histories  of  Augusta  County ;  The  Thomas  Book ;  The  Carter 
Chart;  The  History  of  the  Giles  Carter  Family;  the  printed 
registers  and  histories  of  the  parishes  of  St.  Mark,  Culpeper ; 
Truro,  Fairfax ;  Christ  Church,  Middlesex ;  St.  Peter's,  New 
Kent ;  Bruton,  James  City ;  Henrico  Parish,  Henrico ;  Overwhar- 
ton,  Stafford ;  Bristol,  Prince  George ;  Woods-McAfee  Memorial, 
etc. 


I 


The  Carters  in  the  Revolution 

Unfortunately  Virginia  has  never  had  a  comprehensive  roster  of 
her  soldiers  and  sailors  in  the  Revolution,  though  various  special 
lists  have  appeared  from  time  to  time  in  the  past  hundred  years. 
However,  the  Virginia  State  Library  has  now  taken  the  matter  up 
and  is  preparing  a  comprehensive  alphabetical  roster  of  all  the 
Virginia  soldiers,  in  the  Revolution,  based  upon  all  the  known 
sources,  both  printed  and  manuscript ;  and  doubtless  will  have  it 
printed  when  completed.  Anyone  wishing  to  obtain  the  record 
of  Revolutionary  War  service  of  some  Virginia  ancestor,  no  doubt 
can  obtain  it  for  a  reasonable  fee  from  the  librarian  of  the  Vir- 
ginia State  Library,  Richmond,  Va. 

In  October,  191 1,  the  Virginia  Historical  Magazine  began  the 
publication  of  a  comprehensive  Bibliography  of  printed  and  manu- 
script sources  relative  to  the  service  of  Virginians  in  the  Revolu- 
tion. To  the  present  time  this  covers  nearly  forty  pages  in  the 
magazine,  and  is  not  yet  complete. 

Since  it  has  been  impossible  for  me  to  examine  all  these  sources, 
I  shall  make  no  attempt  to  print  here  a  list  of  the  Carters  who  saw 
service  in  the  Revolution,  though  from  the  few  lists  accessible  to 
me  I  have  found  the  names  of  thirty-six  Carters. 


GENERAL  INDEX 


[Note. — The  sepatate  names  in  the  notes  (in  small  type)  of  the  allied  families  are  not  indexed;  but  all  names 
appearing  in  the  body  of  the  book  will  be  found  in  the  following  pages.  The  notes  are  indexed  under  the  name  of 
the  chief  family  mentioned  in  them.  Owing  to  the  great  number  of  Carter  names,  they  are  placed  in  a  sepatate 
index  at  the  end  of  the  General  Index.] 


Abbott,  Noel  Hughes  63,  Robert  Pace 
63,  Robert  Thornton  63. 

Aberdeen,  Jennie  73. 

Adair,  Emily  143. 

Adae,  Emily  233. 

Aiken,  Judge  A.  M.  115,  116,  118,  Arch 
ibald,    Jr.,     118,     Benj.     Wilson     118, 
Martha  H.  118. 

Alley,  Ethel  Katharine  260,  Janie  Eliz. 
260,  John  Palmer  260,  Margaret  Se- 
vier 260,  Rufus  Carter  260. 

Alsop,  Maj-  Benj.  277,  286. 

Alexander,  Margaret  Carter  213. 

Alston,  Joshua  307. 

Allen,  Agnes  238,  244,  Alice  17s,  176, 
Rev.  Beverley  1O0,  173,  174,  175,  176, 
179,  184,  Benjamin  176,  Charles  144, 
Charles  Carnes  143,  Clemency  174. 
176,  Chanotte  175,  David  353,  David 
Jackson  175,  Emeline  175,  176,  Emma 
Lee  176,  Elizabeth  174,  175,  176,  177, 
Ernest  C.  144,  Frances  174,  George 
i'75,  176,  Hayden  175,  176,  Joseph  144, 

176,  204,  James  144,  174,  James  P. 
175,  17b,  Lucy  144,  174,  175,  176,  Lucas 
P.  144,  Lewis  174,  175,  176,  Louisa  174, 

177,  Martha  144,  175,  177,  Mary  Anne 
175,  Mary  Jane  174,  Olive  144,  Reuben 
175.  179.  Sarah  115,  353,  Susannah  174, 
177.  William  144,  174,  175,  Winifred 
204. 

Allied  Families,  Notes  on : 

Ball,  357,  359;  Bacon,  76;  Beale,  337, 
343  ;  Beverley,  282 ;  Bickley,  228 ;  Bibb, 
128;  Bland,  74;  Blackwell,  351; 
Brown,  109 ;  Bronaugh,  335 ;  Camp- 
bell, 90;  Catlett,  104;  Chiles,  141; 
Chew,  281 ;  Chilton,  354,  161 ;  Clement, 
142;  Chinn,  357;  Conway,  361;  Couch, 
347;  Colher,  274;  Curtis,  199,  285; 
Dale,  12-22 ;  Downman,  362 ;  Dupuy, 
70;  Dymoke,  26-35;  Ellis,  229;  Field- 
ing, 163-166;  Fitzhugh,  349;  Hampton, 
194-199;    Henderson,    191;    Hereford, 


329 ;  Herndon,  284 ;  Hobson,  135 ; 
Hopkins,  125;  Hutchings,  138;  Ireland, 
196;  Jelf,  184;  Lawson,  135;  Lanier, 
139;  Lancaster  (including  Brooke, 
Calvert,  Darnell,  Digges),  232;  Lee, 
84;  Lewis,  342;  Lyon,  186-189;  Love- 
lace, 273 ;  Marshall,  286 ;  Mason,  252, 
332;  McAfee,  188;  Miller,  190;  Muir, 
197 ;  Neale,  345 ;  Payne,  109 ;  Pendle- 
ton, 287;  Peyton,  350;  Pope,  224; 
Preston,  91;  Primm,  365;  Rosier,  102; 
Rutledge,  141;  Shortledge,  197;  Skip- 
with,  22-26 ;  Spencer,  45 ;  Stokes,  86 ; 
Stuart,  248;  Thornton,  38;  Thomas, 
70;  Todd,  272;  Upton,  101 ;  Under- 
wood, 100;  Washington,  288;  Wade, 
198;  Ward,  141;  Williamson,  100; 
Worth,   119;   Yates. 

Am  pert,  Dr.,  296. 

Anderson,  Charles  65,  Charles  W.  65, 
Elizabeth  65,  George  164,  George  A. 
65,  John  60,  Martha  J.  257,  Mary 
Wylds  65,   Nicholas  60. 

Ancell,  Thomas  2,  Mary  2. 

Annadale,  Anne  Carter  219,  Jane  Carter 
220,  Joseph  220. 

Arbuckle,  Capt.  William  190. 

Armstrong,  Edward  80,  John  P.  358, 
Sallie  Irby  80,  Susie  80. 

Archer,  Margaret  Bailes  369. 

Armistead  Family,  note  of  280,  Eliza- 
beth 71,  279,  280,  Francis  279,  General 
140,  Sarah  279. 

Aslin,  William  260. 

Atkins,  Mary  174. 

Aylett,  Col.  W.  R.  79,  Sallie  Brocken- 
brough  79. 

Ayers,  Gen.  Romayn  128. 

Ball  Family,  note  on,  357,  359,  Arabella 
100,  Burgess  67,  Elizabeth  Romney 
271,  Frances  100,  271,  Capt.  George  47, 
Grace  47,  Grace  Waddy  47,  Harriet 
358,  359,  Hillkiah  359,  James  67,   100, 


11 


INDEX 


Col.  James  43,  Col.  Joseph  9,  271,  272, 
330,  359.  Lucy  Hardin  100,  Lewis  100, 
Lavenia  100.  Mary  Matilda  100,  Maria 
100,  Mary  272,  Margaret  9,  100,  Patsy 
100.  Robert  100,  Thomas  100,  Capt. 
William  o,  9,  47,  98.  100,  272,  303. 

Balfour,  Charles  92,  386,  John  92,  Milh- 
cent  92,  Rosebud  386. 

Bacon  Family,  note  of  76,  Drury  Allen 

76,  77,  78,  Edmund  Cummings  77.  78, 
Frances  78,  Francis  Nathaniel  78, 
James  Lawrence  77,  78,  Josephus  Car- 
ter 77.  78,  Kate  E.  77,  Lydall  76,  77- 
78,  Lottie  L.  78,  Mary  Eloise  78.  Mary 
Elizabeth  87,  Mary  Jane  77,  78,  May 
78,  Mildred  Haynie  77,  Nancy  Aris  77, 
Nancy  Goode  78,  Nathaniel  77,  78, 
Robert  Carter  77,  78.  Richard  Parkes 

77,  Roberta  B.  78.  Thomas  Alex.  78. 
Virginia  77,  78,  Virginia  M.  77,  Wil- 
liam 78,  Wm.   Allen  77. 

Baird,  Charles  N.  208. 

Bartee,  Margaret  250. 

Bassett,  Jesse  338. 

Bang,  Frances  130. 

Baker,  A.  V.  178,  Dr.  VV.  A.  258,  Eliza- 
beth 178,  291,  Dr.  James  178,  James 
177,  178,  John  178,  Jennie  178,  Molly 
A.  130,  Polly  Anne  178,  Sarah  178. 

Batte,  James  161. 

Barnwell,  Maria  Walker  133,  William 

133- 

Barlow,  Ephraim  312. 

Barrow,  Artemisia  206. 

Bass,  Ambler  207,  Edwin  Lucas  207. 
Mary  Ellen  207,  Russell  Morton  207, 
Winnie  Louise  207. 

Banres,  Clinton  252,  Dorothy  344,  Mary 
Taylor  252,  Sallie  252,  Dr.  W.  L.  344. 

Bacot,  Anne  Cuthbert  296,  David  Tay- 
lor 296,  Dr.  D.  D.  296,  Florence  296, 
George  296;  Jacquine  Mercier  296, 
Laura  296,  Mary  DeS-  297,  Mary  Lou- 
ise 297,  Norborne  296,  Pierre  296,  Ra- 
chel 296,  Richard  Hutson  297,  Talia- 
ferro 296,  Zachariah  296. 

Bailes,  Beryl  369,  Jenkins  369,  John 
369,  Dr.  John  50,  Margaret  369,  Na- 
than 369,  Sarah  369,  Tabitha  369. 

Beale  Family,  note  on  337,  343,  Atlanta 
338,  Dr.  Andrew  Jackson  336,  338, 
Anna  Maria  338,  Charles  Moore  338, 
David  338,  Ella  Augusta  338.  Emma 
343,  George  338,  James  W.  54, 
James    Monroe    338,    John    338,  343, 


John  Morgan  338,  Dr.  John  Hereford 
341,  343,  Maj.  John  W.  343.  Lalla  338. 
Mary  339,  Mary  Margaret  343.  Mar- 
garet 338,  343.  Robert  Wilson  338, 
Richard  Tavernor  337,  338,  Richard 
Eustace  337,  343.  Sarah  338,  Thomas 
165,  William  338,  Wm.  Clinton,  338. 

Bethel,  Dr.  Pinckney  ill. 

Beverley  Family,  note  on,  282,  Clara 
Vass  80,  Harry  Stanard  80,  Margaret 
281,  Robert  311,  Robert  B.  80,  Virginia 
Eppes  80. 

Bernard,  Lutie  120. 

Bell,  Carter  203,  Charles  203,  Clarisso 
203,  Elizabeth  203,  Henry  203,  204, 
Joseph  203,  204,  Lucy  203,  Thornton 
203,  Willis  203. 

Benson,  Price  M.  296. 

Berry,  George  360,  Jane  360,  Letitia  383, 
/William  260. 

Belcher,  Edward  R.  297.  Robert  297. 

Berkeley,  Catharine  Elizabeth  221, 
Charles  221,  John  221,  Martha  Nelson 
80,  Mr.  165,  William  R.  80. 

Biddle,  Joseph  51- 

Bibb  Family,  note  on,  128,  Eliza  P.  128, 
129,  Gov.  Thomas  128,  Gov.  William 
W.    128. 

Bickley  Family,  note  on,  228,  John  228, 
Mary  Anne  228. 

Bird,  Mattie  254,  William  Beverley  250, 
W.  W.  250. 

Bland  Family,  note  on.  74,  Cornelia 
Alice  73,  John  Archer  73,  Mary  Anne 
73- 

Blake,  Benson  385,  H.  L.  385. 

Blair,  Florence  93,   Nannie  Carter   143. 

Blankinship,  Polly,  308. 

Blevins,  Arthur  131,  Arthur  Hopkins 
131,  Elizabeth  131,  George  Phillips 
131,  Joseph  131,  John  Walker  131. 
Louisa  131,  Llewellen  131,  Robert  131. 

Blankenbager,  Eva  352. 

Bledsoe,  Susan  256. 

Blackwell  Family,  note  on,  351,  Cath- 
arine 351,  Charles  351,  Edward  351, 
Elizabeth  351,  George  H.  351,  Lucy 
351,  John  Wm.  351,  Gen.  John  351, 
Marie  351,  William  351. 

Boone,  Linnie  51. 

Bouldin,  Alice  175,  Briscoe  82,  Isabella 
Carter  82,  James  176,  Thomas  Van- 
derford  82. 


INDEX 


in 


Borum,  Asa  85.  Charles  E.  85,  Charles 
Haynie  85,  Elbert  Carter  85,  Florence 
85,  Bessie  65.  Jeffres  85,  Louise  85, 
Robert  85,  Walker  85,  William  Ber- 
nard 85. 

Bowen,   Arthur   F.    121. 

Boatright,  Ellen  243. 

Bolanz,  Horace  140. 

Boyd,  Dr.  Arthur  206,  Malange  296. 

Bruce,  Armistead  85,  Philip  Alexander 
3,  Rebecca  Carter  85. 

Brent,  Catharine  43,  Charles  43,  Eleanor 
43,  Hugh  391,  Capt.  Hugh  263,  James 
43,  Mary  320,  Robert  334- 

Brewer,   Sarah  221. 

Briscoe,  Susannah  220. 

Brown  Family,  note  on,  109,  Chastaine 
Wm.  Scott  114,  Ellis  234,  John  183, 
John  H.  no.  Col.  John  E.  no,  123, 
Dr.  John  Edmonds  123,  Gen.  John  Car- 
ter 213,  J.  P.  183,  James  Williamson 
no,  in,  Jessie  Carter  123,  Lelia  ill, 
Lafayette  in,  Mary  A.  in,  Melvilla 
207.  Nancy  Scott  114,  Sarah  108,  109, 
123,  182,  Sarah  Anne  114,  Sallie  Car- 
ter 123,  Susan  Carter  in,  113,  Maj. 
Thos.  Jethro  123,  T.  L.  183,  William 
114,  170.  183,  Wm.  Carter  123. 

Brink,  Grace  121. 

Branch,  Sallie  80.  ^~ 

Branham,  John  B.  358. 

Brooke,  Gov.   Robert  233. 

Brooks,  Philip  326. 

Brandenberg,  David  176,  James  176, 
Lester  176,  Lucy  176,  Lee  176,  Sarah 
179,  Stephen  176,  Solomon  179. 

Brock,  Joseph  378- 

Briggs,  Binnie  206,  Dr.  Charles  206,  Elsie 
M.  206,  Wm.  Thompson  206. 

Brownlie,  J.  B.  208. 

Breckenridge,  Wm.  Clark  365,  Lamiza 
Baird  365. 

Brunson,  Margaret  212.  William  212. 

Brockenbrough,  Bettie  251. 

Broyles,  Augustus  Taliaferro  295,  Avena 
296,  Charles  295,  Charles  Edward  295, 
Frank  296,  Ferro  296,  John  Pendleton 
296,  Laura  295,  Margaret  296,  Price 
296,  Roberta  296,  Robert  296,  Sarah 
296.  Dr.  O.  R.  295,  Thomas  296,  Wm. 
Henry  296. 

Brandon,  Gen.  W.  L.  384,  386,  Robert 
Emmet  384,  Samuel  W.  386. 

Bushnell,  Hiram  B.  352,  John  Adams 
352- 


Bronaugh  Family,  note  on,  335,  Anne 
336.  337.  355,  Addison  Carter  351,  354, 
Belle  351,  355,   Bessie  354,   Cora  336, 

353,  Christopher    Columbus    351.    352, 

354,  Catharine  Pope  Peyton  351,  Carrie 
Maria  352,  Charles  Eastham  353. 
Charles  Lewis  353,  David  Harrison 
354,  Emily  348,  354,  Eugenia  352,  Ed- 
win   Addison    353,    Frederick    Peyton 

352,  Frederick  Lewis  352,  Francis  354. 
Francis   Eugene  352.   Francis   William 

353,  Frances  Edith  353,  Fitzhugh  354, 
Gertrude  355,  Henry  Peyton  352. 
Henry  Lee  354,  John  354,  Dr.  John 
334.  336,  339.  348,  John  Bushnell  352, 
Dr.   John   Wm.   354,   Dr.  James   Wm 

354,  Jennie  355-  Ludwell  Lee,  351,  353, 
Lilly  355,  Lewis  Ludwell  353,  Martin 
336,  Marshall  354,  Mary  353,  355, 
Mary  Anne  334.  336.  339,  340,  348,  350. 
351,  Mary  Mason  336,  339,  Mary  Cooke 

348,  Mary  Peyton  350.  Mary  Elizabeth 
353,  Mary  Catharine  354,  Margaret 
Murdoch    337,    355,    Maria    Fitzhugh 

349,  Preston  354,  Rosa  348,  Robert 
Warren  353,  Samuel  Heath  Peyton 
353,  Sarah  Catharine  353,  Thomts  Jef- 
ferson 351,  353,  354,  William  336,  337, 
340,  349,  349,  350,  355.  Wm.  Yelver- 
ton  351,  352,  355,  Wm.  Daniel  353. 
Wm.  Hampton  352,  Warren  Carter 
35i,  352,  Virginia  351.  354,  Yelverton 
Peyton  355. 

Buchanan,   Samuel  243. 

Burgess,  Sallie  178. 

Bunton,  Felix   175. 

Butler,  Mary  305. 

Burns,  Frank  Norbury  316,  John  316. 

Buckley,  Ella  370. 

Byrne,  Gen.  J.  J.  386,  Ira  DeLacy  386, 

Carter — see   separate   index. 

Campbell  Family,  note  on,  90,  Archi- 
bald 292,  Ada  Byron  282,  Anne  95, 
Maj.  Arthur  (letter)  267,  Rev.  Alex- 
ander 292,  Catha  Cotton  292,  Charles 
247,  Elizabeth  McDonald  92,  Elizabeth 
95,  247,  Garnett  93,  James  F.  292,  John 
247,   Capt.  John  92,  Joseph  93,   Mary 

92,  93,  96,  Margaret  292,  247,  Mary 
Fishback  292,  Patrick  247,  Robert  R. 

93,  Robert  Cass  292,  Rebecca  McDon- 
ald 96,  Gen.  Willam  247. 

Cain,  Capt.  Dempsey  346. 
Caplinger,  Anne  373. 


IV 


INDEX 


Cameron,  Margaret  242. 

Carson,  Albana  Caroline  205,  Caroline 
Hines  205,  Thomas  D.  205. 

Carver,  Pamelia  Carter  57. 

Carr,  Blanche  54,  Emeline  Smith  54,  Dr. 
Joseph  Lonacre  54. 

Calhoun,  Jane  68,  Lucy  Anne  67,  85, 
William  67,  68. 

Carusi,  Eugene  ill,  Julia  Hi,  Nathan- 
iel in. 

Carpenter,  James  Clark  96,  Mary  180, 
Ozella  96,  William  Alexander  96. 

Callahan,  Stephen  308. 

Catlett   Family,   note   on,    104,    Philip 

277- 
Cash  well,  Anne  Carter  235,  James  235. 

Cary,  Eva  370. 

Certain,  Henry,  Jr.,  130. 

Cecil,  Mary  240. 

Chase,  Josiah  Brown  388,  Elizabeth 
Loving  388. 

Chester,  Mary  311. 

Chewning,  Anne  9,  Chattin  107. 

Chilton  Family,  notes  on,  354,  361,  Ar- 
temisia 177,  Catherine  355,  Charles 
42,  Ellen  355,  Eloise  Blackwell  354, 
Dr.  Edward  354,  Hannah  360,  Judith 
Carter  41,  42,  Dudley  177,  Mark  A. 
354,  Mary  Carter  41,  42,  Sarah  357, 
Thomas  42,  Wilnam  360. 

Chichester,  Jennie  342,  Richard  98,  262, 
321. 

Chandler,  Sallie  64. 

Chestnut,  Lucy  208. 

Chattin,  Joseph  107,  Mary  107. 

Cheatwood,  Evaline  372,  Nancy  Cottrell 
372,  William  372. 

Chalfont,  Gertrude  316. 

Chinn  Family,  note  on,  357,  Elizabeth 
357,  Emily  341,  John  357,  Sarah  357, 
Mrs.  262,  Mr.  334. 

Chew  Family,  note  on,  281,  Beverley 
297,  300,  Caroline  300,  Hannah  271, 
281,  294,  Capt.  John  281,  John  299, 
Larkin  299,  Lucy  300,  Mary  299,  301, 
Letters  of,  299,  301,  Margaret  Bever- 
ley 281.  N.  299,  Thomas  300. 

Chapman,  James  287,  Lucy  287,  Martha 
287,  Reuben  287,  Robert  287,  Ruth  315. 

Clement  Family,  note  on,  142,  Eliza- 
beth Lanier  141,  Mrs-  N.  C.  136,  Henry 
Turner  141,  Nathaniel  141,  Rutledge 
Carter  141. 

Clay,  Alice  72. 

Clapham,  Ashton  75,  India  Knight  75. 
Sarah  Dunnington  75. 


Clarke,  Berkeley  164,  Frances  93,  Lucy 
93.   146. 

Clayton,  Bettie  165. 

Corbin,  Miss  Lettice  8,  Fielding  163. 

Conway  Family,  note  on,  361,  Anne 
Downman  361,  Edwin  8,  9,  39,  40,  41, 
152,  153  262,  331,  George  361,  Grace 
47,  Grace  Ball  361,  Peter  309. 

Cook,  Essie  James  63,  John  99,  John 
Lewis  63,  Lewis  Harman  63,  Swanson 
63. 

Cobb,  John  183,  Lucy  72. 

Cooper,  George  72,  James  234. 

Cozart,  Simon  77. 

Colston,  Thomas  278. 

Conquest,  E    H.  84. 

Coleman,  Colonel  302,  Henry  143,  Henry 
143,  Henry  C.  301,  James  C.  140,  Lo- 
gan 143,  William  143. 

Conyers,  Sarah  213. 

Cox,  Anne  130,  Alice  240,  Phoebe  241, 
260,  Sarah  260. 

Coates,  Mary  151,  Richard  151. 

Cousins,  William  135,  Mary  341. 

Collins,  Edward  161- 

Copeley,  Atchinson  314,  Susan  314. 

Collier  Family,  note  on,  274,  Anne 
Eppes  274,  John  274,  Mary  274,  Polly 
239- 

Cottrell,  Cecelia  373,  Ellsworth  Moore 
373,  Frank  Lloyd  373,  James  373. 
Jacob  373,  Lloyd  373,  Lois  373,  Ro- 
cetha  373,  Robert  Ancil  373,  Truman 
373,  Thomas  308. 

Couch  Family,  note  on,  347,  Dr.  Daniel 
347,  Edward  347,  Harry  347,  Hallie 
347,  Mary  347,  Margaret  347. 

Counts,  Edgar  242,  J.  A.  242,  Nellie  242, 
Roy  242. 

Coley,  Edmund  Randolph  242,  I.  C.  242, 
Lew  Kennedy  242,  John  Palmer  242. 

Crenshaw,  Jane  68,  Lucy  Anne  67,  85, 
William  67,  68. 

Craig,  Armstrong  182,  Frances  81,  Har- 
riet 190,  James  Kennerley  190,  Rev. 
James  81,  Rev.  John  190,  Capt.  Isaac 
182,  William  182,  David  85. 

Crawford,  David  388,  James  131,  Kate 
Anderson  131,  Maria  Walker  131, 
Maud  Louise  132,  Robert  C.  131,  Ruby 
388. 

Cromwell,  Joseph  178. 

Critzer,  Charles  315. 

Crafts,  Rev.  J.  B.  243,  Rachel  243. 

Cushing,   Alonzo,  346. 


INDEX 


Curtis  Family,  notes  on,  199,  285,  Eliz- 
abeth 285,  Fay  199,  Frances  278,  283, 
285,  George  Bartemous  285,  James 
285,  John  285,  Margaret  285,  Mary 
,285,  Nancy  285,  Preston  Gilmore  199, 
Rice  278,  280,  283,  285,   188. 

Cunningham,  James  78. 

Cullen,  Margaret  51. 

Cummings  Family  42,  Arthur  93,  Ar- 
thur Campbell  93,  94,  Bessie  93,  Rev 
CharleiS  42,  87,  88,  89,  Charles  89 
93.  96,  Campbell  93,  Carter  95,  96, 
David  93,  95,  96,  Elizabeth  89,  92,  93, 
Frances   93,    George   89,   John   87,   I 

92,  96,  John  C.  94,  James  87,  89,  92, 

93,  96,  Mary  89,  92,  95,  96,  Mary  Camp- 
bell 93,  95,  Millicent  Carter  42,  85,  89 
Millicent  89,  94,  Nancy  89,  Nellie  94, 
Robert  89,  93,  95,  96,  Sarah  89,  92,  95, 
96,  Sarah  Polk  87,  Thomas  89,  Wil- 
liam 89. 

Darrow,  Rev.  Arthur  352,  Maud  352. 

Dale  Family,  account  of,  12-22.  Edward 
6,  7,  8,  10,  105,  303,  330,  Grace  Web- 
ster 316,  Joseph  309,  Library  20,  Sam- 
uel 316.  Diana  8,  Elizabeth  8,  Katha- 
rine 8. 

Danford,  Bessie  72,  Henry  Delaplaine 
72,  John  B.  72. 

Dandridge,  Capt.  John   144. 

Darnell,  Agnes  Carter  260,  Isham  Ran- 
dolph 146,  Katharine  C.  146,  Mary  A. 
146,  Shapley  Boyle  146. 

Dabney,  Frances  Glenn  149,  Franck 
Wiatt  352. 

Dawson,  Edward  Roberts  177,  Elizabeth 
227,  George  177,  Hubbard  Kavanaugh 
177,  Josepn  177,  John  Wesley  177,  Lucy 
175,  Lucy  Anne  177,  Mary  M.  208, 
Martha  177,  Myrtle  Lee  177,  Samuel 
177,  Sarah  Jane  177,  Winifred  J.  255. 

Davenport,  Birket  311. 

Davidson,  Cora  243,  Gillinette  243,  John 
240,  O'Ferrall  243,  W.  O.  243. 

Davies.  Dr.  John  B.  81,  Maria  Swift  81, 
Rev.  Samuel  81,  Samuel  D.  81. 

Davis  Family,  account  of,  154,  382,  Aus- 
ten Jeter  380,  382,  383,  387,  Asa  161. 
Annie  175,  179,  383.  Dr.  Allen  Field- 
ing 179,  180,  181,  Benjamin  159,  160, 
161,  162,  164,  165,  383,  Benjamin  Hyat 
173.  Baxter  162,  Charlotte  371,  Charles 
159,  160,  Carter  163,  165,  Diana  Dale 
173.  202,  Ellen  384,  Elizabeth  (& 
Betty)   159,  160,  161,  162,  163,  164,  165, 


168,    173,    183,    Eliza    179,    181,    Elijah 

161,  Edward  162,  Fletcher  182,  183, 
Felix  160,  Fielding  161,  163,  164,  173, 
174,   175,   179,   184,   380,   382,   383,   384, 

386,  387,  Capt.  George  W.  161,  Henry 
Hampton  384,  Jean  Allen  180,  181, 
Pres.    Jefferson    380,    James    154,    158, 

159,  160,  161,  162,  163,  164,  173,  179, 
180,  202,  382,  James  C.  160,  165,  James 
Battee  161,  John  154,  159,  160,  161, 
.164,  165,  179,  John  Fielding  160,  John 
Carter  162,  173,  Joseph  161,  164,  Joshua 

162,  .Lee  384,  Louis  B.  182  Lewis  161, 

162,  Larkin  166,  173,  181,  185,  Lucy 
Taliaferro  180,  Mary  A.  382,  384,  387, 
Mary  Elizabeth  154,  160,  161,  165,  383, 
Mary  159,  160,  162,  164,  167,  177,  182, 
183,  Mary  Carter  173,  (Polly)  163,  165, 
166,   183,  383,   Margaret   384,   Malinda 

182,  183,  Maria  182,  Milla  Carter  228, 
Martha  160,  161,  182,  183,  Maud  179, 
Odison    182,    Phoebe    384,    Rosa    384, 

387,  Richard  161,  Sabrina  384,  Sue 
Hampton  384,  367.  Sophia  181,  Samuel 
Allen  182.  Sunah  J.  182,  183,  Samuel 
380,  Sarah  Ball  115,  Sarah  Allen  115, 
Sallie  Stevens  173,  202.  Sarah  161,  162, 
J82,  183,  Susan  179,  180,  181,  383,  Su- 
sannah 164,  173,  181,  183,  202.  Susan- 
nah Wvat  154,  Stephen  T.  180,  Snead 

160,  Theodore  182,  Thomas  154,  158, 
159,  160,  161,  162,  163,  164,  166,  169, 
170,    171,    173,    174,   179,   180,   181,   182, 

183,  202,  382,  Thomas  W.  160,  161,  181, 
Williamson  173,  183,  William  161,  162, 

163,  164,  179,  324,  William  Dale  160, 
162,  Waters  S.  115,  William  S.  314, 
Dr.   Yancey   181,  Zachary  Taylor  387. 

Dearing,  Anson  50,  Marian  50. 

De  Campe,  sarah  Knight  73. 

Debb,  Rebecca  Mary  114. 

De  Moss,  Diana  Dale  202,  Belle  253, 
Frederick  202,  Susan  202,  William  202. 

Deacons,  Mary  211. 

De  Busk,  Eura  239. 

Dillon,  Amanda  243,  Benjamin  243,  El- 
len 243,  James  243,  Jefferson  143. 

Dick,  Judge  Robert  P.  115. 

Dismukes,  Richard  T.  59,  Mary  59. 

Dillard,  Annie  May  61,  Bessie  R.  61, 
Dora  Edna  61,  Emma  Lee  61,  George 
Samuel  61,  Charles  Edgar  61,  Jennie 
Alice  61,  John  Spencer  61,  Joseph  Y. 
61,  Lucy  Anne  61,  Peter  Stanford  61, 
William  Henry  61,  Wm.  M.  61,  Wm. 
Lee  61. 


VI 


INDEX 


Dickinson,  Elizabeth  Guerrant  70,  Lena 
370,   Rosamond   237. 

Diam,   Mary   135. 

Dillalunty,  Louise  M.  146. 

Digges,  William  43. 

Doggett,  Rev.  Mr.  8,  9,  303,  Mrs.  262, 
Sally  262,  Betty  309,  William  309,  Rev. 
Benjamin  309. 

Downman  Family,  note  on,  362,  Anne 
47.  J'oseph  Ball  359,  Margaret  359- 
Travers  47. 

Dodson,  E.  371. 

1  >OWNS,  Caroline  384. 

Doherty,  Anthony  342. 

Doe,  Judge  Charles  134,  Sue  R.  134,  Sam 
Rose  134.  Sarah  Ross  134. 

Dolan,  Arthur  315,  Charles  315,  Eliza- 
beth  315. 

Dove,  George  R.  241.  Hershall  241,  John 
241,  Maud  241,  Mima  241. 

Dorton,  Frances  241. 

Duncan,  Judge  CKarles  2^7,  258,  Charles 
T.  258,  Elizabeth  258.  Emma  258,  John 
80,  258,  257,  Katharine  258,  Maggie 
Lee  258,  Martha  243.  Mary  J.  145, 
Maxwell  K.  80.  Paul  258,  Sallie 
Branch  80,  William  R.  257,  258. 

Dulin,  John  31-'. 

Dunnington,  John  75,  James  Wm,  75, 
,Lucie  Knight  7S,  Sallie  Everett  75. 
Walter  Grey  75. 

Duvall,  Sarah  Carter  57. 

Dunaway,  Fannie  57. 

Dudley,  Thomas  9,  Gov.  Thomas  233. 

Dunn,  America  Calantha  313.  Dr.  John 
J.  313,  Dr.  John  Robert  313,  Mary 
Jane  313,  Martha  Anne  Stevens  313. 
Ruth  Frances  313.  Nancy  J.  313,  Ra- 
chel M.  313,  Sarah  Lavinia  313,  Vir- 
ginia Catharine  313,  William  L.  313. 

Eaves,  Lilli;  200,  Thomas  176. 

Early,  Pohy  203. 

Eastin,  Martha  E.  375. 

Eastland,  Rebecca  245,  Thomas  245. 

Elliott,  Lucy  371.  Martha  371,  P.  F. 
148,   Robert  370. 

Ellis  Family,  note  on,  229,  Charles  229, 
John  309,  Mary  Anne  229,  Susannah 
H.  228.  229,  Thomas  H.  229. 

Elrod,  James  254. 

Elser,  Max  388,  Frank  Ball  388,  Robert 
Fielding  388. 

English,  Capt.  John  326,  363,  Sarah  326, 
363.  3"4- 

Eppes,  Lucy  Jane  80,  Dr.  Richard  Adams 
80,  Virginia  80. 


Epperson,  Dr.  Jacob  213. 

Epler,  Earl  Norbury  316,  Mary  L.  316, 
William   D.  316. 

Estill,  Judge  Floyd  51. 

ESKRIDGE,  Maj.  George  99. 

Eubank,  Lucy  308. 

Eulas,  Eva  51. 

Evans,  C.  I.  59,  Mary  372. 

Everett,  Frances  356. 

Ewing,  Samuel  245. 

Edwards,  Elias  67,  John  9,  320,  Lucy 
J53,  Sally  367,  William  322,  323,  Wil- 
liam E.  253. 

Faris,  Coleman  62.  Julia  W.  62. 

Farley,  Jonm  B.  348. 

Farrar,  Pattie  78. 

Farmer,  Dr.  Henry  81,  Henry  Hugh  81, 
Mary  Sharpe  81,  Viriginia  Carter  81, 
William   Lodovick  81. 

Ferguson,  Thomas  385,  William  385. 

Ferney,  Olive  Agnes  143- 

Fitzhugh  Family,  note  on,  349,  Han- 
nah 349,  Maria  349,  Col.  William  340. 

Fife,  Anna  Katharine  353,  Charles 
Thomas  353,  Houston  Estill  353,  Mary 
Elizabeth  353,  Robert  Garnett  353, 
Sarah  R.  353,  Thomas  Lee  353,  Wil- 
liam Edwin  353. 

Fitzgerald,    Sophia   65. 

Finch.  Adam  Tyree  78,  Mary  Elizabeth 
78,  Margaret  78,  Tyree  G.   78. 

FIELDING  Family,  account  of,  155-158, 
Edward  154,  Edwin  163,  Eppa  163, 
Hannah   154.  Sarah  154.  38-'. 

Finley,  Richard  112. 

Fields,  Enoch  240,  Joseph  239. 

Fleete,  Henry  98,  Sarah  8,  303. 

Fletcher,  Sarah  57,  Mary  L.  293. 

Fleming,  Ida  75. 

Fluke,  Nancy   Matthews  78. 

Floyd,  John  B.  130,  Major  161,  Martha 
161,  William  161,  Wells  161. 

Flesh,  Edward  222.  Frances  222.  Hettie 
May  222,  Lillie  Lee  222.  Laura  222, 
Mattie  22,   Matthew    Martin   222. 

Flickwir,  Arthur  Heath  316,  David 
lleiirv  316,  Elizabeth  Norbury  316, 
Jerry  Williamson  316,  Joseph   VV.   310. 

Footman,  Hannah  366,  John  366. 

Fox,  Capt.  David  8,  9,  303,  Hannah  9. 

FOUCHEE,  Captain  39. 

Foster.  Edmund  283,  Mary  316,  Mr.  386. 

Ford,  Allen  Warren  179,  Charles  62, 
Elizabeth  C.  G.  62,  James  179.  Jessie 
Cray  02,  Zacnary  Thomas   179. 


INDEX 


vn 


Fones,  Naomi  218. 

Fountains,  Obediah  134. 

Fort,  Anne  Gibson  348,  Harrit  348, 
John  F.  348.  Sallie  A.  356. 

Freeze,  R.  P.  78,  Frances  78. 

Friend,  Carter  Watkins  83,  Caroline 
Scott  83,  Isabella  Carter  82,  Joseph  B- 
82,  Josephine  Katharine  82,  Joseph  82, 
Alary  Gaines  82,  Mary  Craig  82,  Mary 
iBruce  82,  Ruth  Elfreth  83,  Robert 
Crenshaw  82.  Sallie  Cary  82,  Shirley 
Carter  82.  William  Berkeley  82,  Wil- 
liam  Sharpe  82,   Thomas  82. 

French,  George  Reade  116,  121,  Jennie 
Maitland  131,  Col.  N.  B.  131. 

Frazier,  Dicey  255,  Sarah  245. 

Freborn,  Elizabeth  150. 

Freeman,  Charles  370,  Charles  M.  254, 
French  254,  Simon  254,  William  254, 
Anna  370. 

Franklin,  Benjamin  242,  J.  D.  242,  Liz- 
zie 242,   Mary  242. 

Fripps,  Cuthbert  297,  Edward  Parker 
297,  Marion  297. 

Funk,  Arthur  370,  Alice  370,  Charle 
,370,  Emma  370,  Fred  370,  Peter  370. 

Fuqua,  Aaron  308. 

Furlong,  Polly  308. 

Fugate,  William  260. 

Fur,  Catharine  180. 

Fulton,  Caroline  Kyle  251,  Rev.  Creed 
251,  Mary  Taylor  251,  Samuel  Monroe 
251,  Dr.  William  293. 

Gaines  Family,  note  on,  47,  Dorothy  47, 

Francis  47,   Susannah  47. 
Garm,  Mary  316. 
Garlington,  Maria  297- 
Galbraith,  Margaret  325,  Robert  325. 
Gaddy,  Anne  308. 

Galloway,  Eliza  124,  Robert  no,  122. 
Garnett,  Emeline  276,  Nancy  Short  276, 

Philip  276. 
George,  William  4,  10.  326  327,  330,  Rev. 

William   100.   Bishop  2,27. 
Gettys,   Caroline   Carter  206,   Eliza   206. 

Francis  McKeldin  206. 
Gentry,  Ella  293.  Jael  293,  Joel  293,  Lucy 

293,  Lee  Morrison  293,  N.  H.  293,  Nan- 
nie  293. 
Gheens,  Charles  207,  Nora  207. 
Gilchrist,  Sallie  86. 
Gildersleeve,    Benjamin    95,    Bessie    95, 

Basil  95.  Grace  95,  Mary  95,  Virginia 

95    Nellie  95. 


Gibson,  Andrew  95,  Amelia  Carter  95, 
Anne  Markee  95,  Charles  95,  Charles 
C.  95,  David  93,  95,  Eliza  93,  Eliza 
Armstrong   95,   Jane   95,   James    King 

95,  John  94,  Mary  95,  Millicent  95, 
Mary  Jane  95,  Louisa  95,  Sarah  Hop- 
kins 94. 

Gillen water,  Nancy  243. 

Gillispie,  Ernest  189,  John  189,  Nettie 
May  189.  Richard  189.  Thomas  189. 

Gordon,  Elizabeth  93.  Juliet  A.  127,  Col. 
James  39,  107.  ^62,  331,  335. 

Gore,  William  48. 

Goodson,  Charles  Lee  61,  James  A.  61, 
Robert  W.  61. 

Godsey,  LAila  240. 

Goodwyn,  Bettie  Harrison  80,  Camilla 
79,  Judge  Charles  Frederick  79,  Indi- 
ana Davies  80,  John  B.  O.  79,  Lilian 
79,  Lucy  Oliver  79,  Lanetta  Mason  80, 
Mary  Powell  79,  Peterson  79,  Richard 
T.  79,  Rosamond  79,  Susan  Lacy  80, 
Virginia  79,  Vermona  79,  Wirt  79, 
Wilfred  Lacy  80. 

Gorham,   Ella   M.  96,   Elizabeth   Gibson 

96,  George  96,  Marvine  96. 
Gough,  Mima  308,  Susannah  311. 
Gowdy,  Morena  Marilla  346. 
Goff,  Gemima  235. 

Goodloe,  Carter  287,  Martha  278.  280, 
287,  Robert  280,  287. 

Griggs,  Alice  Carter  41.  42,  William  107. 

Green,  Charles  241.  Isaac  49,  Mary  Eliz- 
abeth 363,  Margaret  Anne  49,  Nancy 
204,  Susan  49,  T.  P.  50. 

Graham,  Richard  366. 

Groszclose,  Adeline  257,  Ibbie  257,  Jez- 
reel  257,  Nancy  257. 

Greenaway,  Margaret  Jane  95. 

Grayson,  Anne  58. 

Gregory,  Addie  176,  Frances  Craig  81. 
John  Richard  176,  James  176,  Lillie 
176,  Margaret  176,  Martha  A.  C.  81, 
Richard  D.   175,  176,  William  176. 

CiRYMES,    AugUStUS    287. 

Griswold,  Caroline  233,  Ellen  233,  Ed- 
ward 233,  Joseph  Lancaster  233,  Laura 
Isabella  233,  Maria  C.  130,  William 
Dickinson  232. 

Gray,  Ellen  179,  Elizabeth  Charlotte  62. 
Lalla  Beale  338,  Milton   179,  Dr.  338. 

Guinn,  Abiah  48.  Elizabeth  Carter  48. 

Guerrant,   Cornelia   64. 

Gwathmey,  Anne  Baylor  264,  Temple 
264. 


Vlll 


INDEX 


Hawkins,  Demarct  342,  Nancy  311, 
Nicholas  166. 

Hampton  Family  194-199,  Anthony  382, 
h-lizabeth  Preston  383,  Col.  Henry  383, 
John  164,  383,  John  Waring  193,  Mar 
garet  Wade  383,  Pamelia  Dorcas  193, 
Susannah  383. 

Hacley,  Burley   176. 

Harp,  George  176,  Lewis  176,  Mary  Eliz 
abeth  176. 

Hammond,  Beverley  177,  James  177. 

Hall,  Arthur  133,  Betty  177,  Clemency 
177,  Delphine  123,  Danetta  124,  Emer- 
son 123,  George  177.  Helen  177,  John 

343,  Magdalen    308,    Oliver    Hopkins 

133- 

Hannan,  Miriam  343. 

Hamilton,  Annie  H.  380,  Elizabeth  234. 

Harwood,  Annie  B.  Davis  291,  Jamie  283, 
James  Davis  291,  Gassoway  291,  Mar 
tha  K.  250,  Samuel  Fauntleroy  250. 

Harmon,  Jerome  257. 

Hale,  Anne  343,  Channing  344,  Charles 

344,  George  Robert  344,  Howard  344, 
Joseph  336,  337,  355,  Julia  344.  Mary 
D.  356,  Philip  W-  343,  Robert  344 
Sarah  Smith  356,  Thomas  344,  William 
Beale  343,  William  Payne  343. 

Harvey,  Caroline  Maria  356,  George  W 
356,  Henry  Lewis  356,  Dr.  Henry 
Bowyer  356,  James  Craine  356,  Jo- 
seph Hale  356,  Lewis  Henry  356,  Mag- 
dalen Louise  356,  Martha  Anne  356, 
Mary  Margaret  356,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Lee  362,  Robert  Trigg  356,  Sarah 
Frances  356,  Judge  Thomas  337. 

Haynie,  Bridger  262,  Samuel  335, 
Thomas  8,  98. 

Haynes,  Lucy  276. 

Haines,  Dr.  Blance  M.  37*.  John  Hun- 
ter 375,  Lydia  Hole  375,  Dr.  Thomas 
J-  375- 

Hans,  Matilda  57. 

Hatchett,  Mary  F.  85. 

Harris,  Annie  M.  78,  Dr.  A.  Sidney  130, 
Anne  302,  Adeline  342,  Gainey  303, 
Gordon  Gillette  80,  Mary  O.  130, 
Lydia  80,  Robert  255,  Thomas  130, 
Virginia    130,   Virginia   M.   64. 

Haygood,  Clay  66,  Deborah  Hodges  66, 
Emma  66,  Floyd  Taylor  66,  John 
Thomas  66,  Lillian  66.  Oakey  66 
Thomas  66,  William  Courts  66. 

Hardee,  Dr.  H.  P.  78. 

Halterman,  Frank  370. 


Harrison,  Anne  365,  Bettie  296,  Maj. 
Benjamin  99,  Col.  Charles  144,  David 
C.  351,  Eleanor  343,  Eliza  Anne  221, 
Henry  N.  359,  Hannah  366,  John  P. 
no,  Luel  366,  Pierce  296. 

Hayden,  Polly  208,  Rev.  Horace  100. 

Hawley  Family,  note  on,  112,  Frank 
Lafayette  113,  Hezekiah  112,  John 
Henry  114,  115,  Joseph  Henry  in,  113, 
114,  122,  Lucie  Malinda  113,  Mary 
Carter  114,  Robert  Bradley  113,  Susan 
Murry  113,  barah  Anne  115. 

Hazelhurst,  John  121. 

Harding,  Duncan  130,  Philip  Hopkins 
130. 

Hardin,  John  164,  Lawson  149,  Lucy  100. 

Hardy,  Stella  Pickett  290. 

Hancock,  Chester  143,  Henry  143,  Philip 
143. 

Herriman,  David  314,  Sarah  314. 

Heslop,  Horace  286,  William  281,  286. 

Hegardt,  Gustav  B.  316,  James  Norbury 
317,  Mary  Elizabeth  317,  Nellie  317. 

Henning,  Robert  42.  262. 

Hessivy,  Gladys  Murphy  121,  Wm.  Gra- 
ham 121. 

Herndon  Family,  note  on,  284,  Elliott 
163,  312,  323,  Edward  Hampton  166, 
Joseph  284,  Capt.  John  166,  John  W. 
284,   Mary  284. 

Henry,  Alabama  146,  Missouri   146. 

Heale,  Catharine  Chinn  216,  Elizabeth 
216,  George  216,  Nicholas  216. 

Henderson  Family,  note  on  191,  Col. 
John  354.  Nancy  353,  Robert  370,  Sam- 
uel 339. 

Hitt,  Albert  176,  Bettie  176,  Dora  176, 
Henry  176,  James  176,  Lewis  176,  Mat- 
tie  176,  Martha  175,  William  176. 

Hinson,  Sallie  218. 

Hilton,  Elizabeth  255. 

Hill,  Grace  222,  Joseph  65,  Leroy  222, 
Polly  255,  Richard  222,  Ree  K.  W. 
371,  William  222,  358- 

Hogan,  Mrs.  Robert  G.  35. 

Howerton,  James  65,  Jennie  66. 

HoTTON,  Lula  C.  65. 

Holderby,  Clayton  Sydnor  66,  Frank 
Penn  66,  Mary  Virginia  66.  Minnie  66, 
Thomas  Moreau  66.  William  P.  66. 

Howsen,  Capt.  Ellsworth  85. 

Hogg,  Julia  Anne  100,  Peter  100.  Peter 
E.  100. 

Hook,  John  N.  279,  298. 

Hooks,   Etta    133. 


INDEX 


IX 


Hereford  Family,  note  on.  339,  Adele 
348,  Alice  348,  Anne  348,  Anna  Maria 
341,  343,  Anne  Matilda  342,  Andrew 
Chinn  341,  Bettie  Washington  343, 
Brooke  Gwathmey  343,  Catharine  El 
len  341,  347,  Catharine  Mary  241,  Eliz- 
abeth Page  341,  344,  Eliza  341,  Emily 

341,  Frances  343,  Francis  Marion  341, 
348,  Dr.  Francis  Robert  342,  Frederick 
Stribling  345,  John  Bronaugh  341,  342, 
Dr.   John   Robert  341,  James    Stirling 

342,  Dr.  James  Wilson  346,  Junius 
Temple  345,  346,  Isabella  Semple  342, 
Kate   Bronaugh   343,   Lawrence    Berry 

343,  Lewis  Stirling  342.  Mary  Mason 
341,  Mary  Anne  341,  346,  Mary  Catha 
rine  341,  343,  Mary  Bronaugh  348, 
Margaret  Mason  341,  346,  Robert  Am 
mon  341,  442,  Robert  Lewis  343,  Robert 
Prentice  346,  Sarah  Turnbull  342, 
Thomas  Ammon  341,  346,  Thomas  341, 
Virginia  Lewis  340,  342,  348.  William 
Ansley  341,  William  Fort  348,  Robert 
336,  339,  340,  34 1- 

Horn,  Capt.  Thomas  M.  285. 

Hobson  Family,  note  on,  135,  Adcock 
l35,  Joana  Lawson  135,  Winifred  135. 

Hopkins  Family,  note  on,  125,  Judge 
Arthur  Francis  115,  125,  126,  127,  Ar- 
thur, Jr.,  124,  Dr.  Arthur  124,  Arthur 
Moseley  127,  128,  129,  130,  Arthur 
Francis  129,  130,  Augusta  127,  132, 
Anna  Mary  130,  Anne  Margaret  130, 
Annie  Elise  130,  Bessie  129,  130,  Cor- 
nelia 126,  Corinne  Frances  127,  Cor- 
nelia Carter  127,  131,  Catharine  Ers- 
kine  127,  132,  Charles  Thomas  130, 
Dora  130,  Dudley  130,  Elizabeth  Pettus 
124,  Elizabeth  126,  Elizabeth  May  130, 
Ella  Cale  130,  Emma  126,  Elizabeth 
Pamelia  127,  Frances  Carter  129,  130, 
Frank  Webb  129,  130,  Gertrude  130, 
Holmes  126,  James  108,  124,  125,  James 
Bibb  129,  130,  Jennie  130,  John  Walker 
129,  130,  Louisa  127,  131,  Lucile  130, 
Maria  Malinda  127,  131,  Mary  Moseley 
127,  132,  Maria  Isabella  129,  Porter 
129,  Robert  Carter  125,  Reuben  125, 
134,  Robert  Thompson  129,  131,  Sal- 
lie  Barnet  129,  Sallie  130;  Thomas 
Bibb  129,  130,  Thornton  130,  Thomas 
Harris  130,  131,  Virginia  127,  William 
Leigh  127,  William  129,  William  Fran- 
cis   130. 

Holt,  Joseph  202. 


Hoover,   Alice   177,   Eudora   177,   Moses 

177,  Scott  177,  Robert  175. 
Howard,  William  202,  Anne  202. 
Holland,     Daniel     217,     Elizabeth     217, 

Joyce  217. 
Hollowell,  Edward  222. 
Hocker,  Tilghman  234. 
Houston,  John  234. 
Horton,  Eliza  243. 
Holliday,  Mary  E.  258,  Francis  258. 

HUGHLETT,    Miss   362. 

Hulett,  Bos  well  177,  Clemency  177, 
Liona  177,  Mary  Elizabeth  177,  Walter 
177. 

Hurlburt,  Katharine  Louise  255,  New- 
ton C  255. 

Hume,  James  283,  William  Lewis  284. 

Huff,  Ruth  312. 

Hunton,  Anne  41,  Hannah  43,  44,  John 
43,  Thomas  41. 

Hudson,  Charles  85,  George  V.  221,  Mil- 
dred Bruce  85,  Dr.  Robert  85. 

Hubbard,  Barton  145,  Bettie  296,  Rosa 
85,  Ralph   no,  Thomas  309. 

Hunter,  Mahala  Carroll  346. 

Hundley,  Mattie  118,  Olive  118,  Thomas 
118. 

Hunt,  Agnes   124. 

Hughes,  Annie  132,  Fulton  369,  Sally 
138. 

Hutcheson,  H.  F.  161,  Miss  202. 

Hurt,  Henry  143,  Henry  Hicks  143, 
Jane  143,  John  143,  Lucy  143,  Mary 
228,  Nannie  143,  Philip  143,  Stanhope 
143,  Walker  143,  William  B.  143,  Wil- 
liam 143. 

Hutchings  Family,  note  on,  138,  Anne 
Laura  135,  Chesle'y  134,  Elizabeth  148, 
Dr.  John  M.  134,  135,  John  R.  134, 
Lucy  Parke  133,  U4.  135,  138,  Lena 
134,  Lucy  A.  134,  Moses  133,  134,  135, 
138.  Margaret  133,  Nancy  138,  Philip 
134,  Robert  135,  Sue  D.  134,  William 
135. 

Hyatt,  Benjamin  167,  John  167,  L.  T. 
258,  Sarah  167,  Susannah  167,  Stephen 
167,  Tabitha  167,  William  167. 

Ingram,  Colonel  54,  Fannie  54- 
Ireland  Family,  note  on,   196. 

James,  America  207,  Copley  314,  Eliza- 
beth 309,  Mary  Pollard  46,  Thomas 
106,  S.  D.  314. 

Jefferson,  Field  124,  Miss  124,  Presi- 
dent 124. 


INDEX 


Jenkins,  Gen.  A.  J.  190,  Ada  295,  Dan- 
iel 296,  Herman  218,  John  386,  Nancy 
311,   Paul  296,  Rosamond  296. 

Jackson,  Gen.  Stonewall  123,  John  D. 
207,  Lina  W.  207,  Landon  79,  Lucy 
Goodwyn  79,  Nancy  Aris  76,  Richard 
50,  53,  Wm.  M.  358. 

Jennings,  Anne  147,  Burley  244,  Charles 
244,  Dora  244,  Lilly  244,  Kyle  244, 
Mary  79,  R.  E.  244,  Venice  244,  Wil- 
liam 79. 

Jewell,  Asa  177. 

Jemison,  Harry  370. 

Jeffres,  Eliza  202. 

Jelf  Family,  note  on,  184,  Allen  185, 
200.  201,  Anne  200,  Benjamin  185,  201, 
Clemency  Harp  185,  202,  Eliza  Jane 
185,  200,  201,  Elizabeth  200,  Ella  200, 
Ethe.  200,  Finerta  185,  Henry  200, 
Josie  201.  James  173,  179,  183,  185, 
James  Fielding  185,  Judith  Fletcher 
185,  John  200,  Lucy  Anne  200,  Lewis 
200,  201.  Lillian  200,  Mary  Elizabeth 
185,  Nettie  Lee  200,  Patsy  185,  200, 
Robert  J.  200,  Sallie  167,  172,  Sarah 
Jane  200,  Sallie  Stevens  185,  201,  Su- 
sannah 185,  200,  Wayne  200,  Willis 
200. 

Keller,  Susan  93. 

Kennedy,  Mary  Louise  122,  Dr.  William 

E.  122. 
Keene,  Frances   143. 
Kendrick,  Maria  207. 
Kent,  Betsy  209,  Daniel  209,  Fanny  209, 

John  209,  Molly  209,  William  209. 
Kern,  Nancy  255,  Richard  255. 
Keith,  Elizabeth  296. 
Kearnes,  Daniel  371,  George  371,  George 

W.    371,    Jacob    D.    371,    Robert    371, 

Sarah  Jane  371- 
Kirke,  Catharine  43,  James  43,  209,  John 

209,  Lucy  Carter  43,  Mary  Carter  43, 

William  209. 
Kirby,  Anne  Eliza  183,  Giles  183,  Leon 

95,  Mary  183    Thomas  183. 
King,  Ellen  296,  Mary  278,  Robert  278. 
Kilgore,  Mary  255. 
Kirkpatrick,  C.  M.  314. 
Klugh,  A.  W.  298,  Louise  298,  Wlliston 

298. 
Knox,  Georgia  354,  Leona  C.  354. 
Kuechler,    Henry    Norbury    316,    lone 

Selma  316,  Uscar  316. 
Kuyk,  Charles  Frederick  79,  Rev.  Chris- 
tian R.  79,  Dirk  Adrian  80. 


Kuykendall.  Ola  146. 

Knight,  Alice  Margaret  75,  Alexander 
75,  Carter  Copeland  75,  Carter  Dupuy 
72,  Creed  Thomas  72,  73,  Cleverine  73, 
Emmet  Carter  72,  Elizabeth  Bland  75, 
Emmett  Fitzgerald  75,  Grace  73, 
George  Walton  69,  Indiana  75,  In- 
diana W.  69,  Capt.  John  Hughes  69, 
John  Hughes,  Jr.,  69,  73,  75,  John 
Thornton  75,  Jennie  Wickliffe  72,  Jes- 
sie 73,  Lucy  69,  Lucie  Everett  75,  Mary 
Cornelia  75,  Mattie  75,  Mcllwaine  75, 
Mary  Pryor  69,  Dr.  Oscar  Mansfield 
69,  73,  O'Ferrall  75,  Robert  Dickinson 
72,  Sarah  Everett  72,  73,  Sam  Young 
75,  William  Barret  75,  Wray  Thomas 
72,  73,  William  Carter  69,  70,  72, 
Woodson  09,  William  Oscar  72. 

Lawson  Family,  note  on,  135,  John  4, 
326,  Joana  135. 

Landis,  Absolom  Lowe  50,  51,  52,  Abbie 
Lucile  52,  Edwin  Carter  52,  Helen  Nar- 
cissa  51,  John  T.  51,  Lulan  51,  Leonore 
51,  Melvilla  A.  51,  Sallie  N.  51,  Solon 
Lee  51. 

Lane,  Mary  253. 

Lanier  Family,  note  on,  139,  Adolphus 
138,  Annie  138,  David  S.  138,  John  E. 
138,  Lucy  Washington  139,  Capt.  James 
Monroe  139,   Mary  Anne   138. 

Lancaster  Family,  note  on,  232,  Anne 
200,  Betty  175,  Benjamin  Fielding  200, 
Catharine  232,  Eliza  200,  Fletcher  200, 
Isabella  232,  James  200,  Joseph  232, 
Maria  iviosby  232,  Merritt  200,  Mary 
Lee  200,  Roberta  200,  Richard  200, 
Judge  Raphael  232,  Susannah  200,  Wil- 
liam 200. 

Lambert,  C.  230,  Dianna  230. 

Lawless,   William   234. 

Layne,  Frances  235,  Garnett  235.  Gran- 
ville 235,  Mary  235,  Powhatan  235, 
Thomas   235. 

Lampkin,  Dale  Carter  250,  John  W.  250, 
John  T.  250,  Sarah  Preston  250. 

Ladreth,  Bettie  256. 

Leach,  Sarah  Ellen   176. 

Lemon,  Anne  312. 

Legg,  Jane  Carter  245. 

Lecocoue,  Julia  342. 

Leftwich,  Augustine  307,  Frances  307. 

LeTellier,  Letitia  291. 

Leyburn,  Mr.  93. 

Leigh,  William  126,  Benjamin  Watkins 
385.  Mr.  386. 


INDEX 


XI 


Lee  Family,  note  on,  84,  Anne  220, 
Charles  362.  Edward  243,  Henry  220, 
366,  John  8.  98,  John  A.  84,  Jane  68, 
Lillie  A.  84,  Maria  Crockett  84,  Rich- 
ard 99,  153,  220,  Gen.  R.  E.  362,  Susan 
362,  Thomas  98,  W.  A.  S.,  243. 

Lewis  Family,  note  on,  342,  Bettie 
Washington  340,  Cadwallader  287, 
Howell  340,  342,  Dr.  John  287,  Jane 
287,  Lottie  H.  78,  Sarah  287,  Robert 
287,  Dr.  Zachariah  287. 

Leake,  Jennie  130,  Vernon  130. 

Lillard,  Catharine  181,  Eugene  L.  180. 
181,  Jean  Allen  181,  Polly  53,  Rosa 
Hor tense   179,   Stephen   179. 

Littrell,  Daniel  243. 

Lixdsey,  Rev.  David  127. 

Lillie,  Elizabeth  138. 

Littleton,  Belle  148. 

Linthicum,  Allen  Carter  149,  Arabella 
149,  Chalmers  149,  Edward  149,  Ed- 
ward Hill  149,  Edward  Dale  150,  Es- 
telle  149,  Hill  Carter  149,  150,  Henry 
Tfiomas  149.  Henry  Colvin  150,  Ida 
Susan  149,  John  Terrell  149,  James 
Alfred  149,  Leroy  Freeborn  150,  Susie 
149,  Susan  Anne  150,  Raleigh  Dabney 
149,  William  Henry  149. 

Linn,  Peter  166. 

Lively,  David  203. 

Loving,  Christopher  B.  387,  388,  Eliza- 
beth Watson  388,  Fielding  Davis  388. 
Ida  Bennett  388,   Alary  Davis  382. 

Long,  Michael  371,  William  371. 

Loper,  James  348. 

Love,  Charles  A.  353,  Edwin  353,  Edith 
353,  Grace  353. 

Lovell,  Judge  Milton  139. 

Lowe,  Henry  A.  131.  Maria  Walker  131. 

Lowry,  Gawin  326,  330,  George  362, 
Judith  362,  William  362. 

Lucas,  Charles  59,  Emily  79,  Frances 
234,  James  59.  Matilda  59,  Valinda  59. 

Lucke,  Sallie  141. 

LrsK,  Caroline  Carter  206,  Elizabeth 
Fairfax  206,  Robert  206. 

Luse,  Charles  Anderson  255. 

Lyon  Family,  note  on,  186-189,  Allen 
200,  Anne  200.  Eliza  200.  Eleanor  An- 
derson 64,  Finetta  Anne  189,  Franklin 
200,  Harp  200.  Joseph  183,  186,  189, 
Joseph  Mary  189,  Josephine  189,  James 
200,  Martha  64.  Mary  Elizabeth  189, 
Paralee  189.  Sarah  200,  Stephen  200, 
Thomas  200,  William  200. 


Lunsford,  Edwin  6,   326,    Rodham   335, 

Winifred   3$0 
Lynott,  Dr.  N.  J.  352. 
Lynton,  Anthony  332,  Lettice  332,  356. 
Lynn,  Sarah  Carter  211. 
Lynch,  Katharine  92. 

Marsh,  George  6. 

Martin,  Ada  66,  Ada  Love  131,  Anne 
234,  Benjamin  298,  Charles  E.  131,  Dr. 
Chesley  143,  Hon.  Elbert  S.  258, 
George  314,  Mary  L.  258.  Mauer  29S, 
Nellie  143.  Richard  298.  Robert  49,  S- 
M.  298,  Rev.  Thomas  314. 

Maxey,  James  312. 

Marshall  Family,  note  on,  286,  Altha 
.178,  Cora  178,  Elizabeth  Williams  286, 
Horace  286,  John  330,  Capt.  John  281, 
286,  Rev.  John  W.  178,  James  H.  178, 
Laura  178.  Lydia  178,  Mary  204,  Mar- 
garet 281,  286,  O.  L.  178,  Paul  60,  Wil- 
liam 2S6. 

Mayo,  Josephine  72. 

Manley,  M.  Y.  73. 

Maxgum,  Lucy  A.  77. 

Mason  Family,  notes  on,  252,  332, 
George  3^9,  Henry  80,  Lucy  80,  Mar- 
garet 32,2,  Rosa  386,  Simpha  Rosa  349, 
Thomas  H.  252,  Virginia  Eppes  80. 

Marston,  Marian  278. 

Mallett,  Charles  P.  118,  Jane  Carter 
118,  Margaret  Wright  118,  Marion 
Alexander   118,   Wilson  Aiken   118. 

Magxer,  Leonidas  254,  Teresa  254. 

Madison,  Bishop  100,  John  190. 

Maddox,  Asa  222,  223,  Effie  A.  222,  Su- 
san H.  54,  Truston  Annon  222. 

Marmaduke,  Joseph  224,  William  Car- 
ter 224,  William  B.  224. 

Mann,  James  256. 

McAfee  Family  188,  Gen.  Robert 
Breckenndge  185. 

McAllister,  Elizabeth  204.  J.  M.  123, 
Nathaniel  204,  Rachel  204. 

McCabe,  Col.  Gordon  84,  Peyton  G.  84. 

McChain,  Amelia  95,  Rev.  James  95. 

McConnell,  Mrs.  Malinda  112. 

McCormick,  George  177. 

McClanahan,  Jane  204,  Thomas  204, 
Rev.  William  204. 

McCarty,  Daniel  217,  219. 

McCartle,  Lavinia  348. 

McElvey,  D.  D.  183. 

McElwain,  Alexander  208,  John  208, 
William  208. 


Xll 


INDEX 


McClure,  Catharine  315,  Charles  315, 
Edwin  315,  Edward  316,  Effie  316,  Elva 
Jane  315,  Frank  315,  James  315,  John 
315,  Paralee  316,  William  315. 

McFerrin,  Anne  231. 

McGregor,  Lillian  May  146,  Margaret 
Carter  139,  Wiliam  M.  146. 

McGuinnis,  Dr.  A.  B.  338,  Elizabeth 
Thornburg  338,  Margaret  338. 

McKeever,  Katharine  293. 

McKinley,  Dr.  I.  H.  180,  Susan  H.  180. 

McMain,  Robert  West  348. 

McNew,  Polly  258. 

McNeil,  Lillian  253. 

McSparran,  John  80,  Lucy  Isabella  80, 
Sarah  Margaret  80. 

McTyre,  Sarah  Carter  41,  42. 

Meriwether,  Mary  296. 

Meng,  Elmira  Harrison  292,  Jean  Camp- 
bell 292,  Dr.  John  W.  N.  292,  Dr.  Sam- 
uel Thornton  292,  Warren  292. 

Meriman,  Richard  305,  Susannah  305. 

Meekins,  Cora  Carlin  222,  Neola  222. 

Meigs,  Bait  231. 

Meredith,  Benjamin  370,  Esther  370, 
Jonah  270,   Owen   370,   Rebecca  370. 

Milam,  Samuel  60,  63. 

Millard,  Hallie  316. 

Minor,  Esther  255,  John  154,  284,  Mary 
284.  Sarah  Carr  284. 

Miles,  Isham  308. 

Miller  Family,  note  on,  190,  Beatrice 
288,  Benjamin  298,  Caroline  298, 
Charles  R.  313,  Campbell  298,  Doro- 
thea 298,  Edith  298,  Emma  315,  Eliza- 
beth Swazey  123,  Frederick  55,  56,  58, 
Fay  v_.  199,  Frances  312,  Harry  C.  298, 
Henderson  Hampton  184,  Hugh  Curtis 
199,  Dr.  H.  298,  Ireland  Fielding  194, 
Jean  Anne  199,  John  Hampton  194, 
John  339,  Joana  106,  James  Henderson 
189,  193,  joseph  313,  Dr.  Joseph  Lyon 
193,  Mary  Carter  56,  58,  Maud  298, 
Mattie  298,  Marston  298,  Nancy  Cath- 
arine 199,  Percy  298,  Resica  Elizabeth 
298,  Ruth  313,  Rufus  314,  StepKen  Kis- 
Jing  193,  199,  Sue  Pickens  298,  Talia- 
ferro 298,  William  George  298. 

Mitchell,  Adelina  360,  Agnes  Carter 
245,  Ella  200,  Eliza  360,  Hampton  360, 
John  Chinn  360,  Laurence  360,  Lom- 
bard 360,  Maria  143,  Margaret  360, 
Robert  360,  Somerville  359,  William 
Ball  359,  WilHam  Laurence  Gunion 
358,  359,  Wilhelmina  359. 


Moore,  Dr.  Blanche  374,  384,  385,  Eliza- 
beth 50,  Dr.  George  R.  374,  Lee  222, 
Lavinia  338,  Lewis  50,  Matthew  222, 
Martha  53,  Mary  Ellen  338,  Perry  222, 
Rachel  Roberts  374,  Sharpless  374,  T. 
P.  222. 

Moorehouse,  Frank  257. 

Morris,  Dabney  67. 

Motley,  Sallie  B.  61. 

Moseley,  Arthur  126,  Bedford  78,  Dr. 
Bennett  Willamson  126,  Emily  244, 
Hickory  244,  Harris  Bedford  78,  Jack 
244,  Jeremiah  244,  Pamelia  Thorpe 
126,  Miss   181. 

Mosby,  Ellsworth  Carter  86,  Wade  H. 
86. 

Morton,  Benjamin  298,  E.  H.  298,  Harry 
298,  Peyton   no. 

Morgan,  JJmes  B.  353. 

Moon,  Mabel  141.  , 

Morrison,  Laura  123,  Micca  255. 

Montane,  Alice  124,  Dr.  B.  W.  124, 
Mary  Galloway  124,  William  Carter 
124.  , 

Mullenscott,  Frances  Carter  222. 

Mullins,  Anne  371,  Rev.  J.  C  178. 

Murphey,  Judge  Archibald  DeBow  115, 
116,  117,  Cornelia  116,  117,  Capt.  Peter 
Umstead  117. 

Myers,  Helen  352,  Matthew  334,  Mar- 
garet 371,  Thomas  334. 

Nash,  Rhetta  353. 

Nance,  Bettie  177. 

Nane,  Clarence  E.  314,  Clara  314,  Eliza 
314,  Frances  313,  Isaac  313,  Isaac  S. 
314,  J.  L.  314,  Mary  311,  Ruth  313, 
Susan  Ellen  314,  Wm.  H.  313,  314. 

Neale  Family,  note  on,  345,  Catharine 
Beale  345,  Daniel  217,  219,  Ellen  339, 
Elizabeth  217,  Frances  55,  56,  Han- 
nah 320,  John  220,  223,  Mary  Carter 
219,  223,  Presley  219,  220,  223,  Rich- 
ard 220,  Virgina  Caroline  345,  Wm. 
Presley  345. 

Neblett,  Dr.  Sterling  83,  William  J.  83. 

Neer,   Minnie  370. 

Nelson,  Gilbert  259,  John  161. 

Neil,  Elizabeth  246,  Molly  246. 

Newman,  Lucina  386,  Samuel  B.  386, 
Thomas  366. 

Neff,  Thomas  259. 

Newell,  Pauline  297. 

Niven,  James  370. 

Norris,  Judith  226,  227. 


INDEX 


xm 


Norton,  Florence  296. 

Norbury,  Arthur  Frick,  316,  Anne  Car- 
ter 316,  Elizabeth  316,  Elizabeth  S.  316, 
Dr.  Frank  Parsons  316,  Frank  Garm 
316,  Henry  Joseph  316,  Joseph  316, 
Judge  Joseph  Britt  316,  Lydia  Jane 
316,  LeRoy  316,  Martha  Paralee  316, 
Mary  Gertrude  316,  Nellie  Cutter  316, 
Rebecca  Catharine  316,  William 
Spence    316. 

Nutt,  Dr.  357,  Eliza  Chinn  357. 

Nunally,  ^annie  65. 

Oakes,  Hawley  113,  Major  John  Calvin 
113,  John  C,  Jr.,  113. 

Obst,  Susan  54. 

Oglesbey,  Jennie  53.  Martha  53. 

O'Ferrall,  Gov.  Charles  Triplett  72, 
Frank  Knight  72,  Helen  72,  McLain 
80,  Mabel  72,  R.  M.  80,  Wm.  Carter 
72. 

Oliver,  Arthur  Hopkins  133,  Charles 
Haynie  79,  Collier  79,  Catharine  133, 
Catharine  Hopkins  133,  Cecil  133, 
Etta  133,  Henry  Lowe  133.  Henry  133, 
John  Billups  79,  John  Walker  133, 
James  79,  Lucy  Carter  45,  46,  Lucy 
Jane  79,  Margaret  133.  Percy  133, 
Richard  79,  Samuel  W.  133,  Starke 
H.   133,  Tapscott  45,  46. 

Opie,  Hiram  Lindsay  127,  Juliet  A.  127, 
Capt.  Thomas  127. 

Otter,  John  Delawon  207,  Melvilla  W. 
207. 

Overman,  Harry  118,  Senator  118. 

Overstreet,  Mattie  181.  Milton  181, 
Presley  181,  Smith  181,  Susan  181. 

Owens,  Clyde  Carter  148,  Elizabeth  148, 
Jane  S.  148,  Lucy  E.  148,  Mattie  Ara- 
bella 148.  Nellie  148,  Philip  255,  Wil- 
liam 148. 

Pates,  Nancy  57. 

Patterson,  Katharine  C.  85. 

Page,  Gawin  344,  Jane  Burwell  287,  John 
Byrd  287,  Mann  99,  163,  344. 

Payne  Family,  note  on,  109,  Anne  108, 
121,  Bazel  183,  Davis  183,  Elizabeth 
Carter  225,  Elizabeth  108,  121,  George 
305,  John  225,  235,  305,  Miss  270,  Mary 
225,  235,  Oliver  359.  Richard  3°5.  Wil- 
liam 305,  359- 

Patton,  Alice  G.  133. 

Parsons,  Norman  315. 

Partridge,  Henry  140. 

Painter,  Ellen  372. 


Pannill  Family,  note  on,  211,  Edward 
244,  Elizabeth  210,  Mary  138,  Thomas 
244,  William  209,  210. 

Parker,  Capt.  Alex.  167,  Edward  L.  297, 
Col-  Richard  167,  Sue  297. 

Parr,  Ethel  277,  Harry  277.  Julian  277, 
Leslie  277,  Robert  277,  R.  S.  277. 

Palmer,  Rebecca  370,  Robert  D.  309,  310, 
Susan  McMath  259. 

Percy,  Clarence  342,  Christien  383,  Eliz- 
abeth 342,  Hampton  383,  Dr.  Robert 
383,  Thomas  383. 

Peyton  Family,  note  on,  350  Elizabeth 
iHeath  349,  John  332,  Mary  Catharine 
Pope  349,  Susan  Travers  354,  Yelver- 
ton  349. 

Bennington,  Elizabeth  242. 

Pennis,  Sallie  Carter  251.  A.  A.  O. 
251. 

Penard,   Kirkwood   151. 

Peterson,  Wesley  371. 

Petty,  Rev.  Mr.  134,  Mamie  134. 

Pendleton  Family,  note  on,  287,  Ed- 
mund 287,  Elizabeth  Page  297,  Jane 
Burwell  287. 

Pettus,  Catharine  78,  Elizabeth  124,  223, 
Henry  177,  Page  77,  Wm.  Henry  77. 

Perrotte,  Sarah  9. 

Phelps,  Alma  Eleanor  387,  John  387, 
Katharine  Fielding  387,   Thomas  308. 

Phillips,  Rev.  B.  361,  Ellen  360. 

Pigg,  Bettie  141. 

Pickens,  Joseph  178,  James  178. 

Pinnick,  Col.  182,  Lucretia  Anne  282, 
James  283,  Mary  183. 

Pierce,  Anne  221. 

Pines,  Anne  331,  John  331. 

Plaster,  Thomas  312. 

Pollard,  Ellen  Hackley  342,  James  46, 
Mary  46,  Thomas  46. 

Porter,  Catharine  245,  Duvall  149.  Eliza- 
beth 241,  245,  Mamie  149.  Tillman  53, 
Willia  203. 

Poidexter,  Sallie  65. 

Poitevant,  Lolie  85. 

Pointer,  Lucy  291. 

Pope  Family,  note  on,  223,  Jane  Carter 
224,  Laurence  223. 

Poston,  Aleck  243,  Archie  243,  Elizabeth 
243,  James  243,  Willner  243. 

Primm  Family,  364,  Elizabeth  Langhead 
Hansborough  374,  Capt.  John  364, 
Margaret  364. 

Prather,  William  204. 

Presley.  Elizabeth  238. 


XIV 


INDEX 


Prescott,  Frederick  K.  130,  Kate  141. 

Preston  Family,  note  on,  91,  Anne  93, 
Anne  Amelia  94,  96,  Arthur  93,  Amelia 
93.  Campbell  93,  Eugenia  95,  Elizabeth 
93,  94,  Fairman  H.  94,  John  M.  94, 
Col.  John  93,  252,  John  93,  James  93 
Kate  249,  Margaret  93,  252,  Mary  93, 
Robert  R.  92,  93,  Robert  A.  93,  Robert 
F.  93,  Shelby  93,  Sandy  93,  Thomas 
93,  Thomas  Wilson  93,  Walter  93,  Col. 
William  260. 

Pullen,  Archibald  308,  Nancy  307,  308, 
Polly  307,  308. 

Pusley,  John  221. 

Quigley,  Agnes  Law,  123. 

Quillin,  Broaddus  243,  Mamie  243,  Rev. 
M.   P.  243,  Milligan  243,   Rightly  243. 

Quisenberry,  Adam  203,  Alice  224,  Aus- 
tin 224,  Augustine  224,  Catharine  224, 
George  224,  Jane  Coleman  251,  Lucy 
224,  Martha  224.  Mary  224.  Nicholas 
224,  Pope  224,  Rously  224.  Wm.  Au- 
gustine 224,  Hon.  W.  D.  251. 

Rawlings,  Charles  65.  Ernest  L.  65, 
Frank  Allen  65,  Mary  Sue  65.  Martha 
Dandridge  65. 

Randolph,  Sarah  123. 

Rayburn,  James  100. 

Ragsdale,  Belle  143. 

Raines,  Bettie  176. 

Rainey,  Mary  296,  Ursula  258. 

Ramey,  Anna  240,  Jennie  240,  Mittie 
240,  Wm.  W.  240,  259. 

Reddish,  Joseph  323. 

Redd,  Anne  Watson  144,  Frank  144,  Mar- 
garet 144- 

Redman,  William  221. 

Repass,  Dr.  257,  Major  257. 

Reid,  George  307. 

Reeves,  Charles  313,  Frank  374,  G.  W. 
313,  Isaac  E.  313,  John  David  313,  Dr. 
John  H.  313,  Martin  Winn  313,  Robin 
313,  Ritsy  313. 

Redford,  Emma  354,  Henry  T.  354, 
Henry  Lee  354,  James  B.  354,  Mary 
354- 

Rhea,  Stephen  Ormsbey  348. 

Rhodes,  Kate  255. 

Richardson,  Martha  60,  Thomas  60, 
Capt.  Wm.  290. 

Richards,  John  E.  147. 

Rivers,  Edward  Carter  148,  Ida  Ruth 
148,  Julian  148,  Marion  Leon  148,  Roy 
Dale  148,  W.  C.  148,  William  H.  148. 


Rice,  Arthur  Hopkins  M.  D.  132,  Lt. 
Arthur  Hopkins  132,  Cornelia  Lowe 
132,  Harriet  McFarland  132,  Jane  200, 
James  100,  John  W.  132.  Joseph  Smith 
132,  Louise  141,  Mary  Drake  113,  Nan- 
nie Herndon  132,  Sarah  Martha  176. 

Riggs,  Charles  241.  Moses  241,  Rosa  241. 

Robins,  Sally  Nelson  5,  35. 

Rogers,  Charles  335,  Catharine  325,  Ed- 
ward 43,  Jtlizabeth  9,  Joseph  202. 

Rodney,  Abner  58. 

Rosdel,  Nehemiah  323,  Sarah  323. 

Robertson,  Anne  147,  Edward  147,  Eliz- 
abeth J.  342,  Mollie  147,  Gov.  Wynd- 
ham  95. 

Robinson,  Anne  Jennings  147,  Anne 
Thompson  147,  Christopher  147,  Do- 
rinda  386,  Frances  256,  Nancy  134, 
William  98. 

Row,  Nannie  A.  353. 

Royall,  Bettie  135,  Jesse  135,  John  C 
138,  Nathaniel  135.  Sallie  135. 

Ross,  Anne  Smith  145. 

Roach,  James  177. 

Rodes,  Robert  213. 

Rose,  Samuel  241. 

Roller,  Moby  246,  Ruth  246,  253. 

Rucker,  Bessie  297. 

Rudd,  Anne  Benoist  234,  Dr.  Christopher 
234,  Louise  E.  234. 

Rumsey,  Sallie  175. 

Ruffner,  Elizabeth  355,  Mary  Chilton 
355,  Owen  Ernest  355,  Wm.  H.  355, 
Wm.  K  355. 

Russell,  T.  S.  95. 

Ryals,  William  221. 

Salee,  Boone  200. 

Satterwhite,  Susan  107. 

Saunders,  Anne  Pine  in,  Agnes  315. 
Camillus  ill,  Ethel  315,  Elva  Jane 
315,  George  315,  John  315,  James  F. 
in,  Madeline  130,  Margaret  220,  Re- 
becca Carter  ill,  Hon.  Romulus 
Mitchell  no.  in,  Thomas  315,  Dr. 
William  T.   130. 

Sandridge,  Delphia  234. 

Sawyers,  Frances  144,  James  144,  Mary 
144. 

Schielshott,  Alice  316. 

Scott,  Albert  177,  Rev.  Alexander  321, 
Betsy  321,  Griselda  181,  John  177,  Rev. 
John  321,  Rev.  James  321,  Jane  Armi- 
stead  117,  Nancy  115. 

Scholl,  Georgia  Carter  147. 

Seward,  William  Carter  207. 


INDEX 


xv 


Sewell,  Gov.   Nicholas  233. 

Seldon,  Col.  262,  Betty  262. 

Shoffner,  J.  M.  50- 

Shackelford,  Anne  57. 

Shepperd,  Benton  243,  Elizabeth  60,  Rev 
John  8,  John  T.  60. 

Sharpe,  Sarah  67,  Mrs.  H.  T.  386. 

Shelby,  Mary  93. 

Shirley,  Jackson  100,  John  166- 

Sharfe,  Harry  298,  Martha  298. 

Shelton,  James  145,  Pines  145. 

Shipp,  Thomas  J.   175. 

Simer,  Fanny  181. 

Sinkler,  Nancy,  308. 

Simpson.  Anne  298,  John  298,  John  Gar- 
lington    298,    Jennie    ,298,    Louis    297, 
Mary  298,   Margaret  297,   Maj.   R.   F. 
297,  Richard  W.  297,  Richard  298,  Su 
san  297,   Taliaferro  297,   298. 

Simons,  Campbell  296,  John  296,  Wil 
liam  W-  298. 

Sloan,  Ella  297,  Jean  297,  Louise  297, 
Lela  297,  Margaret  297,  Mary  R.  297, 
Paul  297,  P.  H.  E.  297,  Susan  297. 

Skipwith  Family,  account  of,  22-26 
Lady  Anne  8,  98. 

Skillern,  Col.  George  343,  Margaret 
343- 

Small,  Charles  130. 

Smith,  Duke  Leon  63,  Elizabeth  Camp 
bell  247,  Fannie  M.  132,  Hampton  382, 
Hamilton  233,  234,  Huntington  233, 
234,  Col.  Harry  247,  John  Scarlett  8, 
225>  235>  Julia  Frances  63,  Joseph  181, 
James  200,  382,  Laura  Isabella  234, 
Louise  Huntington  234,  Nannie  143 
Philip,  Jr.,  153,  Rachel  210,  Ralph  Lan- 
cester  234,  Susan  Davis  382,  Virginia 
Lancaster  234,  William  165,  Wm.  Dick- 
inson Griswold  234. 

Smallwood,  Lillian  298. 

Smithers,  Hiram  221,  John  41,  Lucy 
Carter  41. 

Snead,  Jane  Winn  291,  Robert  291, 
Sophia  Harris  291. 

Somerville,  Green  100,  James  100,  Mary 
Anne  100. 

Soyars,  Alvis  64,  B.  F.  64,  Eddie  64,  Ed- 
win Thomas  64,  Jane  Carter  59,  John 
Alex.  64,  John  64,  James  Ruffin  64, 
Sallie  Whitt  64,  Thomas  O.  64,  Wil- 
liam S-  64. 

Southard,  Elizabeth  Carter  244. 

Spicer,  Alfred  M.  49,  Jane  Carter  49. 

Spann,  Richard  262. 


Spencer  Family,  note  on,  45,  Edward 
45,  Edmund  77,  Isabella  F.  85,  Capt. 
John  R.  77,  James  77,  Joseph  Carter 
85,  Mammie  V.  85,  Mattie  Carter  85, 
Mary  77,  Robert  84,  Robert  S.  85,  Col. 
Robert  84,  Sallie  Bouldin  85,  Thomas 
E.  85,  Thomas  Cole  77,  Wm.  243,  Wm. 
Sharpe  85. 

Spears,  Mary  231. 

Spalding,  Samuel  232,  Rev.  S.  B.  230, 
232. 

Spillman,,  Clement  220,  John  220,  Nancy 
220. 

Spence,  Anne  315,  Absolom  Martin  315, 
David  314,  315,  Elizabeth  Peters  315, 
Isaac  315,  316,  Lydia  Paralee  315, 
Mary  Lemon  315,  Mary  McElyea  314, 
315,  Nancy  Martin  315,  Sarah  Catha- 
rine 315,  Rev.  Thomas  314,  315,  Wm. 
315- 

Stretchley,  John  8,  270- 

Strother,  George  323,  Joseph  48. 

Stultz,  Charles  141,  Sarah  M.  63. 

Stamps,   William   43. 

Stacey,  Avis  65,  Alvis  Louis  65,  Eleanor 
Lyon  65,  Guerrant  65,  Irene  65,  Janie 
Sue  65,  Linda  Vernon  65,  Wm.  Carter 

65. 

St.  Clair,  Isaac  307. 

St.   John,   Mary  289. 

Stirling,  Catharine  Mary  341,  Lewis 
341,  Mary  Turnbull  341. 

Strickland,  Claud  L.  64,  Ernest  64. 

Strachn,  Dr.  J.  B.  75,  John  Blackwood 
i75- 

Stout,  SaLie  311. 

Storm,   Arabella   375. 

Strong,  W.  C.  R.  256. 

Stradford,  Elizabeth  262,  Peter  262. 

Stokes  Family,  note  on,  83,  Annie 
Bond  84,  Allen  84,  Capt.  David  R-  83, 
Edward  85,  Irby  84,  Isabella  Overton 
84.  Martha  A.  84,  Martha  Craig  84, 
Richard  Carter  84.  Susan  Jones  84, 
Susannah  68,  Terry  83. 

Stone,  Betty  151,  Jeppy  150,  Mary  151, 
Samuel  151. 

Stayley,  Edison  373,  Elroy  373,  Oscar 
373,  Winifred  373. 

Stevens,  Catharine  153,  Hiram  293, 
Horace  293,  James  153,  Judith  293, 
Lewis  293,  Lucy  293,  301,  Mary  Bev- 
erley Carter  281,  301,  Robert  293,  Capt. 
Richard  281. 

Stith,  Elizabeth  262,  Frederick  Hill  252. 


XVI 


INDEX 


Stanard,  John  357,  James  299,   Larkin  Sutton,   Armistead   O.   287,   294,   Anne 


301,  L.  299,  Mary  P.  299,  300,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  of  Roxbury  163. 

Strange,  J-ucy  200. 

Stewart,  Anne  Carter  245,  Annabelle 
370,  Charles  370,  Cora  370,  J.  Adger 
206,  John  Carter  206,  J.  Alexander  206, 
Jean  Hollingsworth  206,  Lillie  370, 
Laura  E.  259.  Michael  370,  Nora  370. 
Osie   370,    Polly    Carter   245,    William 

249.  259- 
Stuart  Family,  note  on,  247,  Dale  Car- 
ter 249,  Hon.  Henry  Carter  240,  249, 

250,  252,  Henry  C.  249,  Gen.  J.  E.  B- 
247,  John  J.  249,  Katharine  G.  249, 
Margaret  r*.  249,  Margaret  Fulton  250, 
Mary  T.  Carter  248,  250,  Walter  P 
249,  William  A.  247,  248,  249,  250. 

Stowers,  Luke  221,  Lettice  221. 

Storry,   Susan   Carter  213. 

Stanley,  Binnie  207,  Caswell  298,  Jane 
207,  John  W.  207,  Lavinia  207,  Wilber 
207. 

Starke,  Archibald  363,  Alexander  364, 
Charlotte  363,  364,  Coleman  364,  Cath- 
arine K.  365,  Daniel  363,  Evelina  365, 
Elizabeth  364,  365,  Elizabeth  Thornton 

363,  Frances  364,  Henry  Carter  364, 
John  Carter  326,  363,  John  364,  John 
Primm  365^  James  363,  365,  Jeremiah 
326,  362,  363,  364,  Joseph  Carter  365, 
Lydia  305,  Louisa  365,  Mary  363,  Me- 
hethlen  364,  Margaret  364,  Mary  M. 
365,  Margaret  M.  365,  Prudence  364 
Robert   363.    Sarah    Anne    365,    Sarah 

364,  Tabitha  Carter  326,  363,  Thorn- 
ton 364,   i'omat  364. 

Starnes,  Ava  240,  C.  C.  259,  Doc  241, 
Elizabeth  255,  Frank  240,  Hiram  240, 
Joseph  240,  Polly  240,  Virginia  241 

Stair,  Clara  243.  Holdnay  243,  Hannah 
243,  Roscoe  243 

Steenbergen,  Catharine  Beale  345,  Gen. 
Peter  H.  244. 

Stribling,  Betsy  Snickers  344,  Catharine 
Beale  345,  Elizabeth  V.  C.  345,  Dr. 
Matthew  Wright  344.  345,  Mary  Caro- 
line 345,  346,  Matthew  Weightman 
345,  Otis  Francis  345,  Dr.  Robert  Mac- 
key  345  Taliaferro  344,  Thomas  344, 
Wm.  Neale  345. 

Sutherland,  Betsy  371. 

Summers,  Michael  204.  William  203. 

Suiter,  Florence  Carter  84,  John  A.  84, 
Overton  84. 


Lewis  288,   Bettie  287,   Betty  Burwell 

286,  290,  Charles  294,  David  294,  Ed- 
ward 294,  Elvira  294,  Edmund  Pendle- 
ton 288,  Elizabeth  Page  288,  Hugh 
Carter  288,  Joseph  281,  293,  John  Car- 
ter 287,  288,  294,  John  Oliver  287,  294, 
301,  John  Orsville  294,  James  294, 
Judith  294,  Logan  294,  Lucy  Carter 
288,  Maria  Chew  287,  294,  Mary  Eliza 
294.  Maria  294,  301,  Norborne  E.  270, 
279,  288,  Uscar  294,  Pulaski  294,  Pat- 
rick H.  288,  Robert  294,  Robert  Car- 
ter 294,  Robert  W.  288,  Sarah  Darley 

287,  Sarah  Jane  288,  Sarah  Carter  301, 
Stephen  294,  Dr.  Stephen  294,  Wil- 
liam 281,  286. 

Swann,  Amanda  81,  Jacob  S.  81. 
Swope,  William  86. 
Swingle,  Michael  92. 
Swanson,  Sallie  135. 

Tabb,  Mr.  4. 

Tayloe,   Col-  40,  41,  262,   Anne  Corbin 

344- 

Tannehille,  Elizabeth  50,  George  50, 
Keziah  50,  Martha  50,  Marian  50, 
William  50. 

Talbott.  Louise  Winn  73,  Pinckney  ill, 
Mary  in,  Judge  ill. 

Tapp,  Susannah  312. 

Tate,  Tabitha  78. 

Taylor,  Carter  297,  David  297,  Col. 
David  Sloan  296,  Davis  296,  297,  De- 
Saussure  297,  Edward  W.  297,  Ernest 
297,  Eubank  297,  E.  P.  95,  208,  Eliza- 
beth 22,7,  Eleneta  297,  Emma  315, 
Frank  297,  Fountaine  208,  Gabriel  F. 
208,  Gertrude  296,  Hugh  297,  Harriet 
in,  208,  James  22,7,  296.  John  247, 
John  Ligon  297,  Joseph  297,  Lucy  297, 
Lucia  297,  Louise  297,  Lavinia  208, 
Mollie  208,  Mary  247,  251,  Mary  Rosa 
296,  Meriwether  297,  Nancy  257,  Pau- 
line 297,  Kucker  297,  Sarah  237,  241, 
Susan  297.  Samuel  297,  Taliaferro  297, 
Winnie  208,  William  296,  Zachariah 
296,  384. 

Terrell,  Alfred  H.  254,  Charles  254, 
Florence  254,  Jesse  254. 

Thornton  Family,  note  on,  38,  Eliza- 
beth 38,  39,  163.  363,  Edward  355,  John 
355,  ivlarv  163,  Priscilla  Grammar  81, 
Robert  G.  81,  Richard  81,  William  38, 
39- 


INDEX 


Taliaferro,  Burton  281,  294,  301,  Caro- 
line Virginia  295,  298,  Fanny  291, 
John  Z.  295,  Lucy  180,  Lucy  Carter 
279,  281,  301,  Lucy  Hannah  295,  296, 
Margaret  carter  279,  281,  301,  Mary 
Boutwell  295,  Mary  Margaret  295,  297, 
Rebecca  296,  Sarah  Anne  295,  William 
302,  Walker  302,   Zachariah   281,  294, 

295. 

Temple.  Edward  W.  387,  Frank  Ball 
387,  Mary  Davis  387. 

Thomas  Family,  note  on,  70,  Cleverine 
70.  David  no,  Lottie  315,  Owen  177, 
Robert  202,  Richard  Moore  203,  Sarah 
Kenyon  278,  280. 

Thacker,  Thomas  322. 

Thorpe,  Pamelia  126. 

Thompson,  Anna  372,  Alfred  R.  372, 
Edmund  372,  Elizabeth  133,  272,  Hugh 
Alexander  371.  Hattie  372,  Jesse  109, 
133,  Moses  133,  Margaret  133,  Mary 
372,  Nicholas  372,  Robert  L.  372,  Rich- 
ard 371,  Samuel  108,  133. 

Tipton,  William  256. 

Tillery,  Nancy  183. 

Todd  Family,  note  on,  272,  Ellen  73, 
Harvey  223,  Margaret  272,  Miss  271, 
William  272. 

Towles,  nenry  335. 

Trueblood,  Mollie  254. 

Tredway,  Thomas  140. 

Trigg,  Mary  Boyd  93. 

Travis,  Judith  Anne  63,  Capt.  John  C. 
63,  Margaret  245,  Mary  West  63. 

Tuck,  Maria  64. 

Tuxan,  Charles  218. 

Tucker,  Fannie  355,  Jacob  Hutton  355, 
Mary  A.  338. 

Turner,  Alma  Loving  387,  Fielding 
Davis  387,  Ida  Loving  381,  387,  John 
W.  387. 

Tuggle,  Clara  Brooke  80,  Camilla  Pres- 
ley 79,  80,  Douglas  Longstreet  80, 
Eleanor  Thornton  80,  Edward  Arm- 
strong 80,  Florence  Lacy  80,  Indiana 
Everett  79,  80,  John  B.  O.  79,  80,  John 
B.  80,  James  Wilfred  80,  Lucy  L.  80. 
Maria  Vass  80,  Dr.  Richard  B.  79, 
Richard  Wilfred  79.  80,  Richard  B.  80, 
Robert  Thornton  80. 

Turberville,  John  98,  99,  Capt.  George 
99. 

Tyler,  Carter  251,  Elizabeth  Dejarnette 
251,  George  William  251,  Hon.  George 
251,  Gov.  J.  Hoge  251,  Jane  Quisen- 
berry  251.  Mary  Stuart  251. 


Underwood  Family,  not  on,   101. 
Upton  Family,  note  on,  101,  Rev.  G  R. 
342. 

Vass,  Clara  M.  80.  Elizabeth  60,  Eleanor 
H.  S.  80,  James  Cummings  80,  James 
80. 

Vaughn,  Jane  85,  Nancy  227. 

Vance,  Eliza  95,  James  92. 

Van  Wyeth,  Dolly  296,  Elizabeth  296, 
Lydia  296,  Mariah  296,  Margaret  296, 
Overman  296,  Oze  Broyles  296,  Sally 
Anne  296,  Samuel  M.  296,  Dr.  Samuel 
296,  Williams  296. 

Veatch,  John  T.  175. 

VlCKERS,  355. 

Vickery,  Dudley  178. 

Vogln,  Etta  124. 

Von  Nieda,  John  Wolf  252. 

Walker,  Elizabeth  Patton  133,  Emma 
255,  Edith  E.  300,  Eloisefa  L.  179,  Ger- 
trude 175,  John  Simpson  132,  John  J. 

131,  Margaret  133,  Lt.  Richard  Wilder 

132,  William   161,  Z.  T.   175. 

Wamsley,  Benjamin  366,  Elizabeth  366. 

Waters,  Frances  Coleman  364,  John 
364,  Margaret  364,  Mary  S.  H.  P.  352, 
Mary  Anne  Elizabeth  352,  Willam 
352. 

Watkins,   Robert   H.  213,  Dr.   W.   W. 

297. 

Watson,  Edwin  355,  James  E.  355,  John 
369,  Mary  369,  Maria  369,  Wm.  369. 

Wade,  Mary  368,  369. 

Washington  Family,  note  on,  288,  Au- 
gustine 216,  Catharine  294,  Dorothea 
288,  Elizabeth  Courts  288,  Gen  George 
272,  George  288,  Mary  Ball  272. 

Wale  (Whale),  Anne  40,  41. 

Waddy,  Grace  47. 

Ward,  Mary  Alma  51. 

Waddell,  Anne  58. 

Wallace,  Malcom  316. 

Walton,  Gen.  George  69. 

Watt,  George  70,  81. 

Walter,  Starr  121. 

Weller,  Arthur  Douglas  121,  Barzilla 
.Worth  121,  Jacob  121,  Mary  Ida  121. 

Wendall,  Eva  M.  344,  Margaret  Ro- 
maine  344,  Theodore  344. 

Wellford,  Dr.  Robert  290. 

Webb,  Charles  264. 

Weaver,  Richard  218. 

West,  Katharine  245. 

Whiteley,  Joseph  245.  Sarah  245. 


XVI 11 


INDEX 


White,  Carter  291,  Edgar  291,  Eliza  93, 
Eliza  Wilson  96,  Eliza  Anne  200,  Flor 
ence  291,  Granville  Clackner  201,  Gil 
bert  Greenway  96,  Harriet  291,  Jane 
Gibson  96,  Col.  James  L.  93,  95,  252, 
James  B.  201,  Joseph  J.  291,  Margaret 
96,  Mary  Gibson  96,  Pauline  C.  252, 
Perry  200,  Rittie  255,  Robert  A.  201, 
(Sally  43,  93,  Sally  Preston  249,  Sarah 
Givin  96,  Stafford  291,  Stuart  252, 
Thomas  J.  291,  Thomas  Wilson  95, 
96,  Dr.  Thomas  W.  96,  Dr.  William 
252,  W.  Y.  C.  95,  Wythe  291,  William 
200. 

Williams,,  Anne  B.  134,  Alexander  296, 
Charles  62,  Green  113,  George  T.  314, 
John  296,  Lusien  296,  Mary  296,  Mar- 
garet 296,  Mary   Miriam  314,   Marian 

113,  Nellie  K.  62,  Richard  180,  Sallic 
R.  314,  Thomas  J.  298,  William  D. 
296,  Wm.  Robert  314. 

Williamson  Family,  account  of,  100- 
103,  Arabella  100,  James  100,  Margaret 
,100,   William   100. 

Wingo,  Charles  Evans  73,  John  Travil- 
lian  73,  Jane  73,  Sarah  Johnson  73, 
Sarah  Knght  73,  William  73,  Wm. 
Wythe  73- 

Wilmer,  Arthur  Ponsonby  95,  Eliza 
Frances  95,  Frederick  Bradford  95, 
(Frederick  Ponsonby  95,  Louisa  95, 
Louisa  Gwendolen  95,  Thomas  Wilson 
95- 

Willis,  Henry  Hawley  115,  Mary  9, 
Mary  Carter  114,  Narcissa  W.  114, 
Olive    Elizabeth    115,    Richard    Short 

114,  115,   Short  A.   114. 
Wiat,  Charles  352,  Frances  352,  Francis 

!59,  John   David  351,    Katharine   352. 
Margaret  352,  Mary  Anne  352,  Neoma 
352,  Ruth  352,  Rev.  Samuel  351,  Wil 
Jiam    159,    Wm.    Edmund    352,    Wm. 
Slaughter  352,  Walter  352. 

Winslow,  Capt.  158,  Beverley  163,  203. 
William  203. 

Wilson,  Benjamin  181,  Blanche  181, 
Cumberland  346,  Eliza  181,  Fielding 
Suther  181,  George  S.  181,  Hannah  337, 
Isaac  181,  James  181,  346,  John  181, 
337,  338,  John  B.  181,  Jerry  181,  Jo- 
seph G.  308,  Janet  Allen  346,  Mary 
181,  Mary  Cumberland  346,  Mary 
Prentice  346,  Sarah  181,  Susan  Mary 
181,  Willard  181,  William  301,  Zach. 
T.  302. 

Wickware,  James  208. 

Winner,    Glee    H.    371,    Lee    371,    Ree 

Wilkes,  Elizabeth  L.   148,  Thomas  9. 


Whitehead,  Asa  Carter  86,  Kate  Carter 
86,  Thomas  85. 
Kearnes  371. 

Wishart,  Dempster  222. 

Winthrop,  Gov.  John  233. 

Wilkinson,  Sally  242. 

Woolfork,  Carter  123,  Charles  Marion 
123. 

Womack,  Arabella  Carter  144,  148,  Ana- 
bell  149,  Bettie  Anne  150,  Charles  149, 
Dr.  Charles  149,  Dr.  Hobson  149,  Kate 
149,  Dr.  Lawson  149,  Mary  149,  Stone 
149,  Watson  148,  William  149. 

Wofford,  Sarah  203. 

Wolfenbarger,  Benjamin  242,  Cora  242, 
Elizabeth  243,  Emmet  242,  Frank  242, 
Harry  243,  John  242,  Joseph  242,  243, 
Kate  242,  Kyle  242,  Lou  242,  Mary 
243,  Mamie  242,  Peter  243,  Randolph 
Carter  243,  Rufus  242,  Simpson  243, 
Venus  243. 

Wolf,  Dionisus  260. 

Woodson,  Elizabeth  69. 

Wood,  Dale  148,  Dr.  148,  John  309,  Mary 
237,  Sparrell  A.  80. 

Worth,  Archibald  Carter  120,  Barzilla 
Fardner  118,  119,  120,  Carnelia  M. 
116,  120,  121,  David  Jonathan  120,  121, 
Eunice  Virginia  120,  121,  Elizabeth  121, 
Eunice  121,  Frederick  Clarkson  121, 
George    French    121,    Joseph    Barzilla 

120,  121,  Julia  Ada  120,  121,  Jessie  Ne- 
mans  121,  John  Browning  121,  Mary 
Jane  120,  121,  Margaret  Wright  121, 
Masie  B.  121,  William  Elliott  120,  121, 
Wm.  Hoffer  121,  Wm.  Anderson  120. 

Woodward,  Cornelia  121,  Charles  Worth 

121,  Eugene  121,  Eunice  121,  Elizabeth 
121,  Emma  121,  Isabella  C  121,  Marion 
121,  Mary  Clara  121,  Letitia  291,  W.  J. 
121. 

Wright,  Cornelia  Anne  65,  Ernest  L.  65, 
Edgar  65,  Ivey  King  65,  Joseph  Guer- 
,rant  65,  Mary  Carter  65.  Sam  King 
65,  Washington  146,  Wm.  Brown  65. 

Wroe,   William   218. 

Yates,  Mary  Ella   118. 

Yarbrough,   Betty   214. 

Yeager,  Amanda  M.  353. 

Young,  Edith  75,  Eliza  177,  James  A. 
346,  Norborne  346,  Nancy  W.  58,  Otis 
Stribling  346,  Sarah  Harper  346,  Sally 
Anne  174,  Gen.  S.  B.  M.  75,  Uriah  177. 

Younger,  Betty  149,  Lawson  149,  Nancy 
149,  Raleigh  149. 

Zimmerman,  Daniel  312,  324. 


CARTER   INDEX 

Index  of  all  members  of  the  family  having  the  surname  Carter. 


Aaron,  325,  326,  330. 

Abner,  48,  49,  50,  53,  380. 

Abednego,  377- 

Abigail,  211,  212,  256. 

Abraham,  228,  256,  257,  283. 

Addison  53. 

Addison  B.  211. 

Addison    Lombard    358. 

Ada..  135,   141. 

Ada  B.,  140. 

Addie.  255. 

Adelina  Somerville,  358,  359. 

Adcock,  379. 

Agnes,  260- 

Agnes  Caroline,  213. 

Ailcy  Bond,  68,  81. 

Alba.  253. 

Alice,  2,  41,  42,  241,  275. 

Alice  Lee.  62. 

Alexander,  59,  64,  213.  334,  357. 

Alpheus  Barton,  308. 

Alfred,  60. 

Allen.  204,  239,  256,  257. 

Allen  J..  241,  242. 

Allen  Rogers,  207. 

Allen  W-,  151. 

Allen  Taylor,  246,  254,  256. 

Amnion,  308. 

Ambrose,  213. 

Amy,  2. 

Amanda,  242,  253,  255. 

Anne,  2,  41,  58,  219,  235,  238,  239, 

245,  261,  263,  271,  281,  286,  304, 

306,  366,  367. 
Anne  B.,  85. 
Anne  Downman,  47. 
Anne  Eliza,  372,  373,  374. 
Anne  G..  138. 
Anne  Lucile,  63- 

Anne  Pines,  331,  334,  335,  362,  365. 
Anne  Rebecca,  291,  292. 
Anne  Vernon,  65. 
Annie,  85. 
Anna,  208,  241. 
Anna  Briggs,  206. 
Annette  Rose,  207. 
Annabelle,  208. 


240, 
305, 


Ancell,  2. 

Anthony,  334. 

Andrew.   253.   276. 

Anderson,  213. 

Archibald   Stuart,  247,  252. 

Archibald   Gracie,   no,   121. 

Archibald   Murphey,    117,   118. 

Armistead,  378. 

Argyle,   143. 

Arabella,    104,    105,    106,    152,    216,    217, 

225,  261,  263,  265. 
Arabella  Catharine,  226,  227. 
Arabella  Williamson,  147,  148. 
Asa,  221. 
Asbury,  240. 
Atary  Anne,  312. 
Augusta  Cornelia,  65. 
Aubrey,  277, 
Audley,  255. 

Augustine,  210,  261,  263,  306,  307,  308. 
Augustus  Esombert,   118. 
Austin,  147. 

Ballard,  255,  256,  260. 

Barnabas,  377. 

Benjamin,    135,   212,   213,   255,   277,    368, 

369,  370. 
Benjamin,  M.  D.,  213,  320. 
Benjamin    Franklin,    205,   208,   253,    254, 

322.. 
Bernard  Hufft,  85. 
Benton,  257. 
Berry,  259. 
Belle,  254. 
Bessie,  143,  370. 
Bernilla  Frances,  205,  208. 
Binnie,  208. 
Birkett,  311. 
Boyd,  242. 
Bonnie,  242. 
Braxton,  308. 
Braxton  Emmerson,   122. 
Bradley,  243. 
Brent,  214. 
Burley,  256. 
Burdlne,  256. 


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INDEX 


Catharine — see  under  Katharine. 

Carson,  64. 

Caswell,  204. 

Caswell  .Brown,  207. 

Caroline,  370. 

Caroline  M.,  234. 

Caroline  Matilda,  231,  232. 

Caroline  Sophronia,  205,  206. 

Carmin,  362. 

Celeste,  134. 

Celisce  B.,  291. 

Cecil,  122. 

Christopher,   135. 

Christopher  Lawson,   137,   144,   145, 

379- 
Christopher  W.,  145. 
Chanie,  290. 
Charmie,  242. 
Charlotte,  309,  370. 
Charles  VI,  50,  57,  68,  86,  104,  105, 

216,  225,  229,  230,  231,  234,  236, 

253,  254,  255,  265,  268,  311,  312, 

323,  377,  378,  379.  380. 
Charles  Burr,  245,  257. 
Charles  Cabell,  63. 
Lnarles  C,  240. 
Charles  Dale,  247,  250. 
Charles  E.,  370. 
Charles  Edward,  55,  56,  58. 
Charles  G.,  379. 
Charles  H.,  231. 
Charles  Haynie,  68,  85. 
Charles  M.,  239,  240. 
Charles  Oliver,  85. 
Charles  Pinckney,  259,  260. 
Charles  Randolph,  246,  256. 
Charles  Robert  311. 
Charles  Richard,  61,  62 
Charles  Samuel,  60,  63. 
Charles  Thomas,  M.  D.,  151. 
Charles  Wesley,  85. 
Charles  Williamson,  253,  254. 
Charles  William,  85,  254. 
Charles  Wall.  61. 
Charles  Valentine,  62. 
Clifford,  373. 
Clarence  Dandridge,  65. 
Claude  Llewellen,  85. 
Cleve,  V. 
Clinton,  240,  255. 
Clay,  256. 
Clara,  371. 
Clara  A.,  260. 
Clara  Vass.  85. 
Cleo,    370. 


146 


143 
237. 
321, 


Cowan  W-,  239,  240. 

Cornelia,  213. 

Cornelia  Worth,   118. 

Cora,  277. 

Creasy,  234. 

Creed  Fulton,  251. 

Craig,  259. 

Curtis,  289,  290,  291,  292,  293. 

Curtis  Braxton,  M.  D.,  123. 

Cynthia,  322,  371. 

Dale  VI,  39,  40,  42,  99,  104,  105,  153, 
209,  210,  226,  227,  236,  244,  245,  246, 
252,  253,  256,  261,  262,  265,  267,  309, 
325,  330,  334.  377- 

Dale  Campbell,  253. 

Dale  Miller,  137.  147. 

Dale  W.,  256,  260. 

Dandridge,  379. 

Daniel,  2,  9,  99,  104,  105,  209,  210,  211, 
212,  213,  214,  218,  226,  227,  261,  264, 
310,  312,  314,  320,  321,  380. 

Daniel  H.,  311. 

Davis,  260. 

Davidson,  246,  256. 

David,  307,  308,  377,  380. 

David  L.,  380. 

David  M-,  242. 

Delphine  Hall,   124. 

Dicey,  255. 

Diana,  9. 

Dora  B.,  373. 

Dora  Edna,  62. 

Dora  Lee,  63. 

Dora  Lue,  63. 

Doyle,  256. 

Edna  May,  65. 

Edith  Lee,   123. 

Edward,  2,  4,  8,  9,  38,  39,  41,  42,  43,  55, 

57,  99,  104,  105,  137,  138,  144,  145,  165. 

216,  217,  218,  219,  230,  235,  270,  276, 

303,   378,   379.   380. 
Edward,  Col.  V,  6,  7. 
Edward  Dale  154. 
Edward  L.  369,  371. 
Edward  Robertson,  147,  148,  151. 
Edgar,  63,  141. 
Edwin,  3,  60. 
Edwin  /vlbert,  292. 
Edwin  Harvey,  291,  292. 
Edwin  Lucas,  207. 
h-lbert,  245,  256. 
Elihu  Embrie,  246,  256. 
Elijah,  237,  238,  239,  241,  253,  258. 


INDEX 


xxi 


Elisha,  143,  228. 

Elkanah,  255. 

Eliza,  240,  241,  244. 

Eliza  Anne,  291. 

Eliza  Galloway,   124. 

Ellen  Hicks,  140,  143. 

Elaine,  141. 

Ella,  146,  242,  256,  370. 

Ellen,  240,  253,  260,  360. 

Eleanor  Melvilla,  207. 

Elizabeth  (Betty),  2,  4,  9,  10.  39,  4* 
56,  58,  68,  134. ,  137,  138,  146,  153, 
208,  213,  214,  218,  221,  225,  227, 
234,  235,  236,  237,  242,  245,  253, 
255,  256,  259,  260,  265,  271,  276, 
304.  305,  306,  308,  309,  310,  312, 
326,  327,  369,  371. 

Elizabeth  Armistead,  281,  283. 

Elizabeth  A.  234. 

Elizabeth  Belinda,  283. 

Elizabeth  Brown,  no,  123. 

Elizabeth  Bates,  60. 

Elizabeth  Campbell,  247,  252. 

Elizabeth  Dale,  252. 

Elizabeth  Galloway,   124. 

Elizabeth  Jane,  64,  65,  371. 

Elizabeth  Miller,  123. 

Elizbeth  Matlida,  278,   281. 

Elizabeth  Verlinda,  60. 

Elizabeth  Winn,  291. 

Emner  L-.  145. 

Emmet  M.,  239. 

Emory,  241. 

Emily  Jane,  60. 

Emile  Meredith,  54. 

Emily,  240,  241. 

Emma,  124,  135,  242,  243,  255,  275. 

Emma  Isadora,  373. 

Eppes,  J.,  144. 

Ernest,  143,  256. 

Errol,   145. 

Esther,  255. 

Ethel,  371,  373. 

Eugenia  358. 

Eugene  P.,  277. 

Eva  R.,  373. 

Ezra  Thomas,  240. 

Fay,  370. 

Field,  308. 

Fleming,  308. 

Fletcher  Woodward,  293. 

Floyd,  242,  255,  260. 

Flora,  240. 

Florence,  122,  141,  240,  277. 

Frank,  293,  371. 


,  55, 
154, 
230, 

254, 
280, 

314. 


Frederick,  245,  254,  310,  311. 

Frazier,  246,  256. 

French,  277, 

Francis,  68,  377,  379. 

Francis  Marion,  259. 

Frances,  3,  4,  55,  56,  107,  108,  124,  135, 
143,  145,  176,  209,  210,  219,  220,  223, 
240,  243,  261,  263,  264,  271,  280,  283. 
289,  293,  305,  306  307,  322,  323. 

Frances  Ball.  226,  227,  272,  357,  358. 

Frances    ^.urtis,   283,   284. 

Frances  Everett,  359. 

Garland,  204. 

Gainey,  303,  304. 

Gertrude  F.,  62. 

Georgia,  147. 

George  V,  2,  41,  42,  55.  56,  57,  58,  59, 
60,  135,  143,  146,  153,  154.  216.  219, 
221,  222,  225,  226,  227,  228,  230,  231, 
235,  236,  241,  246,  246,  253,  255,  275, 
276,  309,  321,  323,  33i,  3'6o,  371,  377, 
378,  379,  380. 

George  Adcock,  M.  D.,  148,  150,   151. 

George  E.,  260. 

George  Washington,  221,  253,  372. 

Giles  VI,  VII,  7,  56,  370,  379. 

Grace  Ball,  362. 

Grace  Estelle,  63. 

Griffin.  275. 

Grover,  242. 

Guilford  D.,  283. 

Halsey,  377. 

Harold  Lee,  65. 

Haynie,  45.  47. 

Haynie  Hatchett,  85. 

Hansford,  259. 

Harris,  305,  306,  308. 

Harry,  304,  305,  309. 

Harvey  Sutherland,  371. 

Hannah,  43,  242,  243,  278,  301,  320,  321, 

323. 

Hallie,  277. 
Harriet,  309. 
Harriet  Ball,  359. 
Harriet  Woodward,  291. 
Hattie,  254. 
Helen,  146,  256. 
Helen  Virginia,  65. 
Herbert,  208,  239. 
Hershal,  241. 
1-enderson,  256. 
Henry,  M.  D.,  141. 
Henry  Clay,  138. 
Henry   Coleman,  85. 


XX11 


INDEX 


Henry,  2,  4,  9.  10.  38,  47,  99,  243,  244, 
245,  246,  253,  255,  258,  259,  270,  306, 
310,  311,  313,  325,  33i.  335,  360,  361, 
367,  377- 

Henry  L.,  145. 

henry  Milton,  371. 

Henry   Skipwith    8,  303- 

Henry  Smith,  247. 

Hilda,  254. 

Hill,  85,  276. 

Hickory,  243. 

Hiram,  255,  259. 

Horton,  243. 

Hoscoe,  255,  256. 

Hotler,  259. 

Hugh,  260,  321,  323,  324. 

Hugh  Lawson,  140,  143. 

Hugh  Mercer,  277. 

Hugh  W.,  64. 

Huddleston,  378. 

Huddlesee,  378. 

Hutchings  Lanier,  140,  141. 

Humphrey,  261,  263,  379. 

Hy,  378. 

Ibbie,  257,  260. 
Ida,  147. 
Ingram  B.,  54. 
Ira,  260. 
Isaac,  213,  260. 
Isaac  Lawson,  146. 
Isabella,  82. 
Ivey,  277. 
Iverson,  58. 

Jacob  D.,  234. 

Jackson,  241,  142,  255. 

James  V,.  2,   4,   9,   41,   50,   60,    105,    135, 

138,  139,   140,   141,   143,   179,  212,  216, 

217,  218,  230,  241,  242,  243,  253,  255. 

256,  260,  261,  263,  271,  274,  275,  276, 

277,  284,  285,  293,  307,  320,  321,  322, 

323,  324,  330,  377,  378,  379,  380. 

James  B.,  379. 

James  Dale,  148. 

James  D.,  242. 

James  E.,  256. 

James  Horace,  64,  65. 

James  Heritage,  64,  66. 

James  H.,  255. 

James  Garland,  205,  206,  207. 

James  Lucas,  207. 

James  M.,  377. 

James  Madison,  372,  373. 

James  Milton,  291. 

James  Meredith    D.  D.,  54. 


James    P.,   246,   256. 

James  R.,  234,  380. 

James  Rutherford,  213. 

James  S.,  4",  49.  50,  54,  141,  380. 

James  Sawyers,  145. 

Jane,  49,  59,  68,  79.   145,   219,   220, 

^360. 

Jane  Crenshaw,  68.  84. 

Jane  Rebecca,  117,  118. 

Jennie,  240. 

Jennie  Eleanor,  65. 

Jemima,  239,  244,  256,  259,  260. 

Jeduthan,    106,    108,    125,    134,    137, 

261,  263. 
Jefferson  Caswell,  205,  208. 
Jenkins,  368,  369. 
Jedisiah,  310. 

Jeremiah,  331,  365,  366,  367,  378. 
Jesse,   104,   105,    106,    107,    108,    109, 

122,   123,   124,    125,   133,    134,   135, 

145,  230,  234,  241,  255,  261,  263, 

378,  379- 
Jesse  Adger,  123. 
Jesse,  Rev.,  263,  264. 
Jesse,  M.  D.,  109,  no,  122. 
Jesse  Lawson,  108,   134. 
Jesse  Lee,  293. 
Jesse  Woodward,  291,  292. 
Job,  226,  227,  228,  234,  378. 
Joel,  308. 
John  VI,  2,  3,  4,  8,  9,  38,  41,  42,  45 

47,  50,  55,  56,  57,  59,  108,  135,  153. 

164,   165,  202,  203,  204,  209,  210, 

212,  213,  214,  215,  218,  219,  221, 
234,  235,  236,  237,  238,  244,  245, 
253,  255,  261,  263,  265,  267,  270, 
273,  274,  275,  276,  277,  278,  279, 
283,  284,  285,  289,  290,  303,  304, 
306,  307,  308,  309,  310,  311,  321, 
323,  361,  362,  368,  370,  377,  378, 
380. 

Joshua,  242. 

Josephine,  82,  83. 

Josepnme  Larue,  259. 

Joseph  VI,  2,  4,  9,  10,  48,  49,  53,  68, 
104,   105,   108,   134,   138,   147,   152, 
154,   164,   165,  202,  203,  209,  210, 

213,  214,  226,  227,  236,  237,  238. 
241,  244,  246,  253,  255,  259,  260, 
276,  285,  291,  308,  320,  321,  322, 
325,  330,  331,  332,  334,  335,  356, 
360,  361,  362,  365,  366,  367,  369, 
378,  379 

Joseph  Addison,  357,  358,  359. 
Joseph  Ball,  272. 


245, 


143. 


121, 
138, 
377- 


46, 

154, 
211, 
230, 
246, 
272, 
281, 

305, 
322, 
379, 


,  85, 
153, 
212, 

239, 
271, 

323, 
359, 
377< 


INDEX 


xxin 


Joseph  Carr,  54. 

Joseph  G.,  379. 

Joseph  H.,  236,  241,  242,  243. 

Joseph  W-,  53,  311. 

Joseph  Wilson,  54. 

Joseph  Woodward.  U.  D.   S.,  293. 

Josephus,  M.  D.,  68,  84,  85. 

John,  Capt.,  278,  279,  281,  283,  286,  285 

290,  293    294. 
John,  Col.  II,  V,  VI,  1,  2,  6,  7,  8,  270. 
John  Allen,  205. 
John  Arthur  Shirley,  123. 
John  Alexander,  64,  65,  66. 
John   Coleman,   62. 
John  Conyers,  213. 
John  Champe,  378. 
John  Dandridge,  65. 
John  Dale,  140,  143. 
John  Donaldson,  253,  254. 
John  Edward.  372,  375. 
John  F.,  253. 
John  Henry,  2gi. 
John  Jarret,  378. 
John  Mosby,  243. 
John  Miller,  357,  359. 
John  N.,  256. 

John  Payne,  no,  115.  116,  117. 
John  P.,  256,  379. 
John  Pinckney,  260. 
John  R.,  259,  260. 
John  Robertson,   148. 
John  Rivers,  213. 
John  S-,  221.  380. 
John  Samuel,  61,  62. 
John  Spencer,  60,  61,  62. 
John  Taylor,  247.  250. 
John  Trigg,  246,  255,  256. 
John  V.,  373. 
John  W.,  144,  370. 
Judson,  239,  276. 
Judith,  9,  39,  41,  42,   146,  226,  227,  235 

236,  238,  239,  244,  245,  265,  271,  281 

307,  330,  33 1- 

Katharine    (Catharine   and   Kate),   2,   4. 
8,  9,  10,  38,  39,  43,  53,  85,  86,  98,  IS3> 

154,    202,    211,    2l8,    221,    24I,    242,    243, 

245,  265,  270,  304,  305,  306,  309,  312, 
314,  321,  323,  324,  325,  326,  327,  330, 
367. 

Katharine  Chinn,  360. 

Katharine  Kyle,  251. 

Katharine  Ross,  146. 

Katharine  St.  John,  293. 

Katharine  W.,  150. 

Keziah  T.,  50. 


Kenyon,  283. 
Kelley,  243. 
"King"  II,  VI, 


I,  236. 


Landon  VI,  48,  49,  53,  220,  236,  258,  260, 

378. 
Landon  C,  260. 
Larkin,  234. 
Lakie,  242. 

Lawrence  Sullivan,   146. 
Lanier,  141. 
Lawson,  306,  307,  308. 
Lawson  Hobson,  137. 
Lavinia,  205,  313. 
Lavicia,  313. 
Laura,  240,  255,  256. 
Laurabelle,  292. 
Lettice,  221,  334,  335. 
Lettie  Anne,  331,  222. 
Lenoir,  293. 
Leana,  322. 
Leora,  371. 
Lewis,  323. 
Lewis  'Randolph,   146. 
Lemuel,  378. 
Levy,  378. 
Levin,  56,  58. 
Little  B.,  379. 
Lillian,  371. 
Lloyd,  241. 
Lottie,  146. 
Louisa,  253,  254,  256. 
Louise  Michem,  205,  207. 
Louie  C,  373. 
Lonetta,  257. 
Luther,  254,  275. 
Lucas   Hutchings,   144. 
Lunsford,  311. 
Lucretia,  309,  310. 
Lucy,   41,   45,  46,   47,  68,    139,    143,    148, 

219,  220,  265,  271,  275,  281,  283,  284, 

369- 
Lucy  F.,  234. 
Lucy  Lee,  148. 
Lucy  Leona,  255. 
Lucy  Margaret,  144. 
Lucile  Daniel,  65. 

Marion,  241,  370. 

Marshall  Dermott,  254. 

Martin,  43,  44,  370. 

Martin  Everett,  57,  58. 

Matthew,  370. 

Mary  Anne,  60,  68,  76,  no,  m,  146,  228, 

«35,  334,  359,  372,  373. 
Mary  Agnes,  123. 


XXIV 


INDEX 


Alary  (May,  Mamie,  Minnie  and  Polly), 
2,  4,  41,  50,  55,  56,  60,  86,  108,  125, 
134,  I35>  146,  148,  163,  179,  203,  210, 
211,  212,  214,  218,  219,  220,  223,  239, 
240,  241,  242,  244,  245,  246,  250,  255, 
256,  257,  259,  260,  271,  275,  283,  284, 
286,  289,  306,  308,  312,  313,  321,  322, 
323,  324.  357,  368. 

Mary  A.  E-,  205,  207. 

Mary  Beverley,  281,  293. 

Mary  Coleman,  85. 

Mary  Chattin,   108,  125. 

Mary  E.,  122,  148,  153,  154,  209,  210,  213. 

Mary  Ellen,  65,  240. 

Mary  Elizabeth  Jessie,  118. 

Mary  Frances,  221,  222. 

Mary  Galloway,  124. 

Mary  Jane,  359. 

Mary  Lloyd,  259. 

Mary  Margaret,  213. 

Mary   Miller,   134. 

Mary  N.,  234. 

Mary  Page,  334. 

Mary  Pollard,  46. 

Mary  Robertson,   147,   149. 

Mary  Stewart,  251. 

Mary  Taylor,  247. 

Mary  Thomas,  140. 

May,  135. 

Mamie,  255. 

Malissa,  260. 

Maud,  143. 

Mahala,  259. 

Marcia  Ray,  62. 

Maria,  276,  277. 

Matilda,  238,  239,  271. 

Mattie,  84,  65,  155,  256,  275,  277. 

Mattie  Sue,  65. 

Malinda,  234,  322. 

Marian  jJixon,  293. 

Martha,  50,  53,  118,  143,  234,  240,  242, 
243,  271,  278,  280,  286,  326. 

Martha  E-,  309. 

Martha  L.,  374. 

Martha  Louise,  372. 

Martha  Maud,  141. 

Martha  Pleasants,  145. 

Margaret,  39,  49,  55,  56,  107,  108,  133, 
139,  209,  210,  213,  220,  242,  245,  250, 

255,    257,    259,     165    271,    281,    286,    322, 

325,  326,  332,  334,  363,  369,  370. 
Margaret  Chew,  271,  281,  294,  299. 
Margaret  Crockett,  247,  250,  252. 
Margaret  Elizabeth,  358. 
Margaret  J.,  63. 


Margaret  Todd,  278. 

Marguerite,  293. 

Mellie  Emmett,  207. 

Merriman    (Merry),  305,  306,  307,  308. 

Mesh.,  378. 

Meredith,  54. 

Mildred,  85,  230,  235,  326,  373. 

Mildred  Haynie,  68,  81,  85. 

Mittie,  57,  240. 

Millie,  228,  310. 

Minerva,  239. 

Millicent,   42,   87. 

Milton,  213,  240,  259. 

Miller,  134. 

Miles,  239,  313. 

Milton  Laaa,  259,  260. 

Moses,  325,  379. 

Monroe,  241,  259. 

Morgan,  237,  238,  258,  260. 

Moxie,  255,  257. 

Mozelle,   148. 

Mourning,  240,  241. 

Myrtle,  257. 

Nancy  (Nannie),  49,  50,  57,  63,  85,  143, 
146,  204,  211,  227,  228,  242,  243,  244, 
246,  255,  256,  275,  308,  309,  312,  313, 

314,   323,   332. 
Nancy  Caroline,  205,  208. 
Nancy  E.,  60,  64. 
Nancy  Nunally,  65. 
Nathan,  260. 
Nelson,  255. 
Nellie,  134,  141. 
Nellie  Allen,  255. 
Nettie,  255. 

Nicholas,  2,  9,  378,  379. 
Niel,  255. 
Nigel  Bruce,  254. 
Norris  VI,  226,  227,  236,  238,  239,  240, 

244,  245,  257,  260. 
Nora  P.,  63,  256. 
Numa  Richardson,  64. 

Obediah,  378. 
Oliver,  2. 

Oliver  Parker,  144. 
Ophelia,  222. 
Othelo,  242. 
Owen,  275. 
Owa,  256. 

Pamelia,  57,  58,  231. 
Pamelia  V.,  231. 
Patty,  228. 
Patsy.  139. 


IXDEX 


XXV 


226, 

236, 
265, 


Patton,  239,  240,  243. 

Patrick,  313. 

Pascal,  58. 

Peyton,  58. 

Percy  H.,  141. 

Peter   VI,   4,   9.,  10,    104,    105,   225, 

227,  228,  229/230,  231,  234,  235, 

237,  238,  244,  245,  258,  259,  26b, 

276.  325.  330,  363,  378. 
Peter  D.,  234. 
Peter  E.,  231^  260. 
Peter  Ross,  146. 
Peter  Walton,  234. 
Penelope,  221,  223. 
Phoebe,  237. 

Philip,  211,  276,  277,  378,  379,  380. 
Philip  Vass,  60.  63. 
r'leasants.  145,  146. 
Polly,  203",  239,  257,  259. 
Poval,  377. 
Priscilla,  203. 
Prescott,  141. 
Presley,  55,  56.  57.  "58,  59,  218,  219, 

221,  223,  238,  239,  241,  242,  243, 

245,  320.  321. 
Presley  Gilbert,  242. 

Rachel,  210,  242,  311,  312,  323. 
Raleigh,  41,  42,  45,  47,  67,  68,  85, 

147,  361,  379- 
Raleigh  Downman  362. 
Raleigh  Williamson,   137,   145,    147, 

150,  151,  379- 
Reuben,  135. 
Rebecca,  85.  145,  240,  243,  244,  256, 

309- 
Rebecca  Pines,  no. 
Reba,  243. 
Rhea,  243,  255. 
Rice  Curtis,  283. 
Richard  V,  VII,  59,  217,  219,  220,  234 

305.  306,  378. 
Richard  Alexander,  55,  56.  60. 
Richard  T.,  60.  68. 
Rittie,  256. 
Rita,  277. 
Robert,  2,  4,  124.  134.  135,  138,  153, 

165,  209,  210,  212,  213,  219,  220, 

227,  255,  260,  271,  274,  278,  281, 

305.  323^  357,  361,   362,  367,  370, 
Robert  Allen,  205. 
Robert  Curtis,  M.  D.,  292. 
Robert  Ellsworth,  375. 
Robert  Ford,  62. 
Robert  Galloway,  124. 
Robert  L-.  148. 


220, 
244. 


106, 
149, 
308, 


154 
226, 
304 
378 


Robert  M.,  273. 

Robert  N.,  373. 

Robert  P.,  48. 

Robert  Stewart,  369,  370,  372. 

Robert  Trent,  372,  374. 

Robert  W.,  379.  380. 

Robert  Wistar,  61. 

Robert    ("King"),  VI,  5,  98,  330. 

Roland,  239.  277,  373. 

Koger  Mills,  242. 

Ross,  146,  276,  277. 

Rosewell,  141. 

^oy,  255. 

Roy  S.,  54. 

Rosa,  241,  255,  260. 

Rosamond,   237,   259. 

Roseland,  243,  244. 

Roselina  Althea,  358. 

Ruth  .253,  275,  313. 

Ruth  Holmes,  60. 

Rufus,  143. 

Russell,  258. 

Rutledge,  141. 

Sarena,  242. 

Sarah.  41,  42,  50.  55,  56,  57,  108,  125, 
134,  135,  137,  144,  163,  203,  210,  217, 
218,  219,  221,  226,  227,  228,  237,  238, 
240,  241,  243,  245,  246,  261,  263,  264, 
271.  277,  281,  283.  287,  312,  323. 

Sarah  Anne,.  234,  373. 

Sarah  Brown,   no,   124. 

Sarah  Ellen,  334. 

Sarah  Everett,  68,  69. 

Sarah  Frazier,  253. 

Sarah  Hardaway,  85. 

Sarah  Jane,  61. 

Sarah  Oliver,  85. 

Sarah  Otey,  369,  371. 

Sarah  Preston,  247,  251. 

Samuel,  63,  139,  239,  240,  242,  377,  378. 

Samuel  Parsons,  291. 

Samuel  Ross,  141. 

Samuel  Stone,   151. 

Scott,  137,  140,  142,  143. 

Sharpe,  68,  81,  85. 

Shirley,  85,  242. 

Shields.  141. 

Sheffey,  258. 

Shedrach,  234. 

Shapley  Prince,   146. 

Sinah,  309. 

Sidney  Lee,  68. 

Solomon,  226,  227,  228,  229,  230,  235, 
310. 

Solomon  Frazier,  255. 


XXVI 


INDEX 


Sophia  Helen,  292. 
Sophronia,  82,  204. 
Spencer,   45,   46,   47,   55.   56,   57.   60.   64 

361. 
Spencer  M.,  379. 
Stewart,  58. 
Stokeley,  138,  139.  *43- 
Stonewall  Jackson,  259. 
Stanley  Wayman,  62. 
Stephen,   255,   313,   380. 
~"STephen  D.,  151. 
Stephen  Obst,  54. 
Stephen  Oglesbey,  54. 
Susan  50,  243,  370. 
Susan  Anne,  148,  149. 
Susan  Elizabeth,  221,  222,  291. 
Susan  Lee,  64. 
Susan  May,  54. 
Susan  Satherwhite,  no,  122. 
Susan  V.,  122. 
Susannah,  50,  164,  202,  203,  230,  234,  265. 

268. 
Susannah  Amelia,  213. 
Susannah  Gaines,  48,  53. 

Tabitha,  326,  332,  362,  367,  368,  369,  370, 

371. 

Taylor,  140. 

Taylor  W-,  257. 

Tarpley  Williamson,  147. 

Tascoe   (Tasker  ?)    Conway,  362. 

Temperance,  2. 

Thompson,  55,  56,  57,  58,  59. 

Thomas,  Sr.,  Capt.  I,  VI,  1,  2,  3,  4,  6 
7,  8,  9,  10,  38,  98,  99,  236,  270,  303 
320,  325,  330. 

Thomas,  Jr.,  Capt.,  8,  9,  10,  38,  45,  98, 
99,  100,  104,  106,  107,  148,  152,  165, 
209,  216,  217,  225,  261,  265,  270. 

Thomas  V,  VI,  2,  4,  39,  40,  40,  41,  42, 
45,  46,  47,  48,  50,  53,  60,  85,  86,  87 
104,  105,  106,  107,  134,  135,  136,  137, 
138,  139,  142,  143,  144,  145,  209,  210, 
216,  217,  218,  219,  220,  226,  227,  236, 
237,  238,  239,  241,  242,  244,  245,  259, 
260,  263,  271,  289,  290,  304,  309,  311, 
320,  321,  323,  377,  378,  379,  380. 

Thomas,  Col.,  99,  214,  215. 

Thomas  C,  380. 

Thomas  Chattin,  108,  134. 

Thomas  Franklin,   124. 

Thomas  L.,  256. 

Thomas  M.,  143,  146. 

Thomas  Morgan,  237,  238. 

Thomas  Robertson,  147. 

Thomas  Spencer,  48,  49. 


Thomas  Williamson,  154,  245. 
Theodorick  VI,  379. 
Tipton,  53. 
Towns,  378. 

Ursula,  238. 

Van  Buren,  241. 
Verjane,  234. 
Vicman,  379. 

Virginia,  85,  141,  240,  257. 
Virginia  Emiline,  205. 
Virginia  Hinckle,  259. 
Virginia  Louise,  291. 
Virginia  Page,  359. 

Walter,  63, 

Warren,  357- 

Warner  P.,  144. 

Wayne,  241. 

Washington,  259. 

Walker,  379. 

Wesley,  259. 

Wheeler,  221,  222. 

Willis  Green,  M.  D.,  322. 

Williams,   141. 

Willard,   143. 

Winfield,  253,  255. 

Winifred,  47,  134,  136,  137,  138,  139,  204, 
258,  310,  311. 

Winifred  H.,  134. 

Winifred  Jane,  205. 

Winifred  Louise,  255. 

Willie  E.,  124. 

Willie  Sue,  240. 

Williamson,   106,  245,  258. 

William  V,  VII,  2,  9,  48,  49,  50.  57,  68, 
84,  85,  86,  124,  135,  138,  139,  210,  211, 
212,  213,  221,  227,  228,  238,  245,  255, 
256,  260,  261,  263,  271,  274,  275,  276, 
277,  280,  283,  284,  289,  290,  307,  308, 
311,  312,  313,  321,  323,  361,  362,  368, 
369.  370,  371.  377,  378,  379,  380. 

William  A.,  148,  239. 

William  Arthur.   Rev.   122,   123. 

William  Alonzo,  123. 

William  Alvin,  65. 

William  Austin,  65. 

William  B.,  260. 

William  Brown,  no.  124. 

William  C,  234. 

William  E.,  311. 

William  Edgar,  62. 

William  F.,  121. 

William  Fanning,  85. 

William  H.,  60,  61,  62,  64,  148,  205. 

William  Henry,  292,  357,  358,  359. 


INDEX 


XXVll 


William  H.  G.,  Gen.  VI. 

William  Harvey,  Capt,  362. 

William  Harrison,  205. 

William  J.,   140,   143. 

William  Joseph,  144. 

William  L.,  307. 

William  Martin,  291,  293. 

William  P.,  378. 

William  Pannill,  209,  210,  21 1. 


William  Richard,  82. 
William  Spencer,  65. 
William  Stamey,  63. 
William  Thomas,  54. 
William  Vass,  63. 
Worley,  241. 
Woodward  Lee,  293. 
Wrenne,  85,  323. 

Zion   Pennington,  242. 


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1.  Carter   of   Bedfordshire.    Crest   same   as   seal   of   Thomas   Carter,   of 
'"Barford,-'  Va. 

2.  Dale    of    Northampton    (crest    is    not    drawn    correctly).      Same    as 
used  by   Major   Edward   Dale.   Lancaster.   Va. 

3.  Dymcke     of     Lincolnshire-       Authority — histories     of     the     Skipwith 
family. 

4-   Skipwith  of  Leicestershire.     Authority — records   showing  Dale-Skip- 
with   marriage. 


Genealogy  of  the  Carter  Family 

Captain  Thomas  Carter 

Origin. 

The  name  Carter  is  given  among  the  fifty  surnames  most  com- 
monly found  in  England,  and  is  of  quite  ancient  respectability, 
as  it  occurs  among  the  country  gentry  as  early  as  the  four- 
teenth century.  From  early  times  there  seem  to  have  been  two 
separate  Carter  families  in  England. 

The  use  of  the  talbot,  buckle,  and  Catharine  wheel,  in  various 
combinations  in  the  arms  of  the  different  Carter  families  settled 
to  the  north  of  London  in  the  small  adjoining  counties  of  Bed- 
ford, Hertford,  Middlesex,  Buckingham,  Oxford,  and  the  still 
more  northerly  shires  of  Northumberland  and  York,  would  seem 
to  bind  them  all  more  or  less  closely  to  one  fountain  head  of  this 
blood,  the  original  seat  of  the  family  probably  being  in  Bedford 
or  Hertfordshire.  The  other  Carters  were  located  to  the  south 
of  London  in  Kent,  Cornwall,  Somerset,  Devon,  and  Ireland, 
with  no  similarity  whatever  between  their  arms  and  those  of  the 
northern  Carters,  the  original  seat  of  the  southern  Carters  proba- 
bly being  in  Kent.  In  the  century  preceding  the  settlement  of 
Virginia  a  great  many  of  the  Carter  families,  both  north  and 
south,  sent  a  number  of  their  younger  sons  to  London  to  seek 
their  fortunes  in  business. 

The  arms  used  by  Col.  John  Carter  of  "Corotoman,"  Virginia, 

and  by  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  of  "Barford,"  Virginia,   indicate 

that  both  belonged  to  the  Carters  north  of  London,  though  not 

the  same  family. 

Ancestry. 

Of  the  ancestry  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  of  "Barford,"  Christ 
Church  Parish,  Lancaster  County,  Virginia,  we  know  nothing 
certain.  The  tradition  preserved  by  a  branch  of  the  family  in 
Lancaster  and  recorded  in  1858  says  that  he  was  the  son  of  a 
London  merchant  of  good  family. 


2        GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

The  circumstantial  evidence  of  the  crest  on  his  seal,  the  nam- 
ing of  his  home  "Barford,"  and  the  striking  similarity  of  the  bap- 
tismal names  of  his  children  and  their  descendants  with  those 
of  Bedfordshire,  makes  it  appear  strongly  probable  that  he  was 
more  or  less  closely  connected  with  the  ancient  Carter  family  of 
"Kimpson/'  Bedfordshire.  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  he  was  a 
son  of  one  of  the  sons  of  William  Carter,  Gent,  of  Kimpson, 
Bedfordshire  (buried  Dec.  i,  1605),  and  his  wife,  Mary  Ancell 
(Buried  March  1,  1619),  daughter  of  Thomas  Ancell,  Esq.,  of 
Barford,  in  Co.  Bedford.  They  had  issue  seven  sons  and  ten 
daughters  as  follows :  Thomas,  eldest  son  and  heir,  born  Sept. 
l9>  1575 ;  Nicholas,  William,  Anne,  Winifred,  Mary,  Oliver, 
Amye,  Elizabeth,  Temperance,  Anne,  Ursula,  Anccl,  Robert, 
Katharine,  Alice,  and  John,  the  youngest,  born  Nov.  5,  1599. 
The  names  Henry,  Edward  and  Daniel  appear  among  the  chil- 
dren of  those  sons  of  William  and  Mary  Ancell  Carter,  of  whom 
we  have  record. 

Capt.  Thomas  Carter  of  Virginia  may  possibly  have  been  the 
youngest  son  of  Ancell  Carter,  born  Oct.  28,  1591,  son  of  Wm. 
and  Mary  Carter  of  Kimpson,  who  settled  in  London.  At  the 
visitation  of  the  Heralds  from  the  College  of  Arms  in  1634, 
Ansyll  (Ancell)  Carter  of  London,  Grocer,  had  six  sons  living 
as  follows :  George,  eldest  son,  John,  Ansyle,  William,  James, 
and  Thomas,  youngest  son,  who  could  not  have  been  over  three 
or  four  years  old  in  1634.  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  of  Virginia  was 
born  in  1630-31. 

No  original  paper  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  bearing  his  own 
seal  has  been  found  (he  sealed  his  will  with  the  Dale  crest),  but 
his  grandson,  Joseph  Carter  of  Spotsylvania,  in  1739  use(^  a 
seal  bearing  the  initials  "T.  C."  surmounted  by  a  crest  showing 
a  demi-talbot  out  of  a  mural  crown.  This  is  one  of  the  crests 
of  the  Kimpson  Carters  and  of  Ancell  Carter  of  London. 

Though  the  parentage  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  is  not  known, 
as  is  likewise  the  case  of  Col.  John  Carter  of  "Corotoman"  and 
a  number  of  other  prominent  emigrants  to  Virginia,  there  is 
plenty  of  evidence  to  show  that  he  came  of  a  good  family,  whose 
claim  to  gentility  was  unquestioned.    He  lived  in  an  age  when  a 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  3 

man's  pretensions  to  social  consideration  must  bear  thorough 
investigation  before  being  allowed;  and  Capt.  Thomas  Carter's 
seem  to  have  stood  the  test. 

Mr.  Richard  Alexander  Bruce  in  his  Social  History  of  the 
Seventeenth  Century  in  Virginia  says :  "There  was  the  clear- 
est recognition  of  class  distinctions  in  every  department  of  Vir- 
ginia life  during  the  seventeenth  century,  a  fact  brought  out  in 
numerous  ways  by  the  silent  testimony  of  different  legal  docu- 
ments which  have  survived  to  the  present  day.  The  colonial 
custom,  following  the  immemorial  English,  was  in  such  docu- 
ments to  fix  by  terms,  whose  legal  meaning  was  understood,  the 
social  position  of  the  principal  persons  mentioned  therein.  In 
conversation  the  term  "Mister"'  was  no  doubt  applied  to  both 
gentlemen  and  yeomen ;  the  term  seems  in  fact  to  have  been  re- 
served in  those  early  times  in  all  forms  of  written  and  printed 
matter  for  those  whose  claim  to  be  gentlemen  in  the  broad  social 
sense  was  admitted  by  all." 

Mr.  Bruce  says  further  that  in  Virginia  this  use  was  observed 
most  constantly  in  the  county  tax  lists,  where  only  gentlemen 
received  any  designation  at  all ;  and  that  was  always  either  "Mr." 
or  a  military  title  if  such  was  possessed.  The  Lancaster  records 
abundantly  substantiate  such  a  claim  for  Thomas  Carter,  as  from 
his  first  appearance  in  the  tax  list  of  1653  as  "Mr.  Tho :  Carter" 
until  his  death  in  1700  he  does  not  appear  without  the  distin- 
guishing "Mr."  or  "Capt." 

Himself. 
The  first  written  account  we  have  of  Thomas  Carter,  Gent., 
the  emigrant,  is  in  a  MSS.  account  of  the  family  in  1858  by 
John  Carter  of  "The  Nest,"  Lancaster  County,  who  derived  most 
of  his  traditions  from  a  maiden  aunt — Miss  Fanny  Carter,  born 
in  1738,  died  in  1830,  who  seems  to  have  known  a  great  deal 
about  the  family.  But  in  every  generation  the  spinsters  of  a 
family,  having  no  husband  or  children  to  occupy  their  time,  have 
been  the  repositors  of  its  genealogical  lore.  The  account  of 
Thomas  Carter  is  as  follows : 

"Our  ancestors  came  to  Virginia  about  two  hundred  years  ago 
&  settled  in  Lancaster  County.    The  first  one  of  the  Carters  was 


4        GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER   FAMILY 

my  grandfather's  grandfather  Thomas  Carter  son  of  a  London 
merchant  of  good  family. 

"I  have  heard  said  there  was  two  brothers  of  them  the  other 
being  a  John  Carter  who  settled  south  of  the  river  in  Essex  but 
further  I  can't  say.  And  I  have  heard  said  we  are  kin  to  old 
Robert  Carter  who  is  buried  at  old  Christ  Church  in  this  County 
but  have  never  found  out  how.  He  was  very  rich — some  say 
the  richest  man  in  Virginia. 

"Our  old  Ancestor  Thomas  Carter  was  about  21  years  old 
when  he  come  to  Lancaster  and  he  was  a  man  of  substance  and 
position  as  a  planter  and  tobacco  trader.  He  was  married  twice. 
First  to  an  English  woman  whose  name  I've  never  heard,  they 
had  2  or  3  children  who  all  died  young.  She  died  and  he  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Dale  of  good  connections  and  had  seven  sons  and 
two  daughters  named  Thomas,  Edward,  James,  John,  Henry, 
Peter,  &  Joseph  and  the  girls  was  Betty  and  Katy. 

"Betty  married  a  Mr.  George  and  has  descendants  in  this 
county.  Katy  aunt  Fanny  said  was  a  great  beauty  and  married 
a  Mr.  Tabb  and  I  guess  was  the  great  grandmother  of  the  Glou- 
cester Tabbs  who  are  a  rich  and  prominent  family."  Note. — 
The  old  Carter  Prayer  Book  says  that  Katharine  Carter  married 
John  Lawson  on  the  16th  of  June  1703. 

The  remainder  of  this  MSS.  will  be  given  under  the  different 
branches  of  the  family  to  which  it  refers.  It  is  written  in  a  little 
leather  bound  "Diary"  for  the  year  1858  and  is  now  owned  by 
Miss  Mary  Carter,  an  aged  lady,  at  present  living  in  Lincoln 
County,  Ky.  It  was  sent  to  her  uncle  Thomas  Carter,  in  1858, 
by  his  uncle  John  Carter  of  Lancaster  County.  The  first  page 
is  as  follows:  "The  Carter  Family  Tree,  for  Thomas  Carter 
Esqr,  Lexington,  Ky.  Written  out  by  John  Carter  of  The  Nest 
Lancaster  County  Virginia  from  notes  from  the  old  papers  at 
the  Court  House  and  the  recollections  of  his  aunt  Miss  Frances 
Carter  who  was  born  in  the  year  1738  and  died  in  the  year  1830." 

As  shown  by  the  above  note  and  the  Lancaster  records,  Capt. 
Thomas  Carter  was  besides  being  a  planter,  a  merchant  and  to- 
bacco trader  and  probably  was  the  son  of  a  merchant.  This  is 
true  of  the  majority  of  the  seventeenth  century  Virginians  who 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  5 

made  any  stir  in  the  social  or  political  affairs  of  the  colony. 
While  most  of  them  were  more  or  less  closely  connected  with 
the  minor  gentry  at  home  in  England,  and  an  occasional  "cousin 
to  a  lord,"  in  the  main  the  emigrants  were  either  members  of 
the  various  craft  guilds  or  professions  or  sons  of  members. 

Of  the  social  status  of  these  ancient  tradesmen  we  know  that 
in  the  seventeenth  century  the  military,  clerical,  legal  and  medi- 
cal professions  and  the  mechanical  and  merchantile  arts  held  re- 
lations to  the  social  life  of  England  vastly  different  from  what 
they  now  have.  These  professions  and  occupations  at  that  time 
were  filled  by  the  younger  sons  of  both  the  nobility  and  landed 
gentry,  who,  owing  to  the  law  of  primogeniture  fixing  the  par- 
ental estate  upon  the  eldest  son,  were  thus  dispersed  to  seek 
their  fortune  and  honor  elsewhere,  without  in  any  way  affecting 
their  lineal  traits  or  mental  and  social  investments.  So  a  great 
deal  of  the  very  best  blood  in  England  entered  the  twelve  great 
craft  or  livery  companies  as  indentured  apprentices  to  learn 
some  trade  or  craft  and  later  to  be  freemen  of  the  same.  Long 
lists  of  titled  persons  who  actually  served  their  apprenticeship 
have  appeared.  It  is  said  that  "from  these  companies  sprang 
many  of  the  noblest  houses  and  grandest  characters  of  English 
history." 

Upon  their  arrival  in  Virginia  many  of  these  seventeenth  cen- 
tury emigrants  set  up  stores  along  the  great  rivers ;  commanded 
their  own  trading  vessels,  or  went  into  business  as  master  crafts- 
men, such  as  saddlers,  carpenters,  etc.  Among  the  early  mer- 
chants were  the  ancestors  of  many  of  the  families  that  for  three 
centuries  have  been  pre-eminent  in  Virginia,  such  as  the  Lees, 
Byrds,  Randolphs,  Nelsons,  Carters  of  Corotoman,  Lightfoots, 
and  others.  Upon  acquiring  land,  which  most  of  them  did  soon 
after  landing,  the  English  law  gave  them  the  right  to  resume 
the  distinguishing  title  of  "gentleman"  and  the  coat  of  arms, 
which  came  to  them  from  their  landed  ancestors  in  England. 

Mrs.  Sally  Nelson  Robins,  a  descendant  of  some  of  Virginia's 
most  prominent  families,  writes :  "We  Virginians  should  never 
be  scornful  of  trade,  for  the  best  of  our  forefathers  (and  indeed 
the  most  of  the  early  ones)    coined  money  in  their  houses  of 


6  GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

general  merchandise.  *  *  *  They  did  not  come  to  the  New 
World  for  the  pleasure  of  the  thing — ah,  no !  it  was  for  a  better 
living  than  England  afforded  them,  and  when  they  got  here  they 
had  to  hustle,  as  the  pioneers  who  suffered  and  toiled  in  Alaska 
hustled  twenty  years  ago.  The  Virginia  colonist  didn't  have  the 
snow  and  ice  in  abundance,  but  he  had  chills  and  fever — much 
worse — and  other  ills  not  accounted  for.  To  make  his  living  he 
set  up  a  store,  or  contracted  for  the  erection  of  buildings,  and 
in  consequence  was  called  "carpenter,"  and  this  affix  to  his 
honorable  name  shocks  his  twentieth  century  descendants,  who 
think  of  Virginians  as  dashing  cavaliers,  never  as  tradesmen. 
The  little  store  helped  to  move  the  great  plantation  and  evolved 
the  lordly  planter,  the  most  picturesque  personage  (after  the 
Indian)  in  America." 

Like  Colonels  Edward  and  John  Carter,  Captain  Thomas  Car- 
ter seems  to  have  lived  at  first  after  he  came  to  Virginia  in 
Nansemond  County  and  to  have  continued  his  store  in  that 
county  after  he  had  removed  to  Lancaster.  He  appears  first  in 
the  tax  list  of  Lancaster  County  in  1653  when  "Mr.  Tho:  Car- 
ter" paid  tithes  on  himself  and  four  servants.  From  this  time 
on  until  his  death  he  appears  with  a  varying  number  of  ser- 
vants— in  1663  he  paid  for  twenty,  and  in  1699,  the  year  before 
he  died,  for  nine. 

He  purchased  his  first  plantation  of  about  eight  hundred  acres 
on  the  "Eastermost  branch  of  Corotoman  River"  from  Col.  John 
Carter,  and  June  1,  1654,  acknowledged  the  debt  in  court — 
12,852  pounds  of  tobacco  to  be  paid  the  following  October  "at 
ye  dwelling  house  of  the  sd  Mr  Tho:  Carter,"  and  130  sterling 
on  Sept.  18,  1655.  "Mr.  Thomas  Carter,"  "Planter,"  "Mer- 
chant," and  "Gent."  acquired  land  as  follows : 

Jan.  14,  1656,  from  George  Marsh,  560  acres;  1658  from  Ed- 
mund Lunsford  a  plantation,  acreage  not  given;  Dec.  8,  1674 
from  his  father-in-law  Edward  Dale,  "Gent."  500  acres ;  May 
27,  1657  a  patent  for  150  acres;  Sept.  20,  1661,  patent  for  220 
acres;  and  in  the  next  thirty  years  patents  for  small  parceh 
aggregating  47°  acres.  He  seems  to  have  kept  practically  all  of 
this  during  his  lifetime.     The  old  court  records  show  that  he 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  7 

appeared  frequently  as  the  attorney  for  non-residents  of  Lancas- 
ter both  in  other  parts  of  Virginia  and  England,  thus  showing 
that  he  had  a  wide  acquaintance. 

"Oct0  ye  21st  1663  According  to  order  the  Oath  of  a  Commis- 
sioner (justice)  was  this  day  Administered  to  Capt.  Thomas  Car- 
ter after  which  he  sat  in  the  Court,"  and  continued  on  the  bench 
until  Nov.  8,  1665.  March  8,  1670  the  following  order  of  court 
was  recorded :  "At  ye  request  of  Mr.  Edward  Dale,  Mr :  Tho : 
Carter  is  dep'td  Clerke  for  the  said  Dale  ffor  conformation  of 
whom   in  ye  Clerke's  place  it  is  ordered  by  this  Court  Yat  a 

bee  sent  to  ye  Hobl  Thomas  Ludwell  Esq1-  Secretary 

for  his  approbation."  The  first  order  shows  that  he  was  a  cap- 
tain in  the  Lancaster  militia.  It  is  also  believed  that  he  was  a 
burgess  in  1667  and  probably  subsequently.  The  Randolph  papers 
show  that  a  "Captain  Carter"  was  a  burgess  in  that  year  and  a 
member  of  one  of  the  committees.  This  was  during  the  "Long 
Assembly",  which  convened  March  23,  1661,  and  lasted  until 
Mar.  7,  1676  without  a  general  election.  At  this  time  there 
seems  to  have  been  no  other  Carters,  of  any  prominence,  in  Vir- 
ginia outside  of  those  in  Lancaster  County,  and  Giles  Carter  of 
Henrico  County,  who  is  said  to  have  never  held  any  military  or 
political  position.  In  Lancaster  County  the  tax  list  for  1667 
shows  the  names  of  "Col.  John  Carter,  Sr." ;  Col.  Edward  Car- 
ter", "Capt.  Thomas  Carter,"  and  "Mr.  John  Carter,  Jun."  April 
11,  1666  Col.  John  Carter,  Sr.  as  presiding  justice  administered 
the  oath  of  a  justice  to  his  son  "Mr.  Jo:  Carter",  whose  name 
appears  in  the  list  of  justices  with  the  title  of  "Mr."  until  1670, 
when  he  appeared  as  "Capt."  John  Carter.  For  a  number  of 
years  prior  to  1661  Lancaster  county  had  two  and  sometimes 
three  representatives  in  the  House  of  Burgesses,  but  the  incom- 
plete lists  of  the  "Long  Assembly"  give  her  but  one,  though  it 
is  presumed  that  she  had  as  many  burgesses  during  that  period 
as  before  and  after. 

Were  the  old  vestry  book  of  Christ  Church  in  existence  it 
would  most  probably  show  the  name  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter 
among  the  vestrymen  and  church  wardens.  The  old  vestry  book 
beginning  in  1739  for  the  combined  parishes  of  Christ  Church 


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8        GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

and  St.  Mary's  White  Chapel,  gives  the  names  of  the  two  sons 
of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  surviving  at  that  time,  and  two  of  his 
grandsons  among  the  vestrymen  and  church  wardens ;  and  a 
grandson  and  a  great  grandson  were  clerks  of  the  vestry  for  a 
number  of  years. 

From  Mrs.  John  Scarlett  Smith  of  San  Francisco,  whose  step- 
mother was  a  Carter,  I  have  obtained  the  old  Carter  Prayer 
Book,  printed  in  1662,  which  contains  many  valuable  records  of 
this  family. 

The  early  marriage  and  birth  records  in  this  old  book  are  all 
in  the  same  handwriting,  but  as  it  is  a  seventeenth  century  hand, 
they  were  probably  written  in  by  Capt.  Thomas  himself  in  his 
old  days,  or  else  copied  from  some  other  record  by  one  of  his 
sons. 

His  Marriage  and  Children. 

"With  this  Book  pr  Rv  Mr  John  Shepperd  on  Wednsday  ye  4h 
Day  of  May  1670 — was  Mard  Mr  Thomas  Carter  of  Barford  in 
ye  County  of  Lancaster  in  Virga  &  Katharine  Dale  ye  eldest 
Daughr  of  Mr  Edw :  Dale  ye  same  County." 

Capt.  Thomas  and  Katharine  Dale  Carter  had  issue  ten  sons 
and  three  daughters,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

"Edward  ye  eldest  Sonne  of  Tho :  &  Kathn  Carter  was  born 
on  ye  9h  Ap'll  1671  of  a  Sunday  at  8  aClock  in  ye  Morn8  and 
was  bap12  on  Sunday  the  30*  Mr  John  Carter,  Mr  Edwn  Cona- 
way  &  Mr  Edw :  Dale  Gdfathrs  &  Mrs  Diana  Dale  &  Msz  Lettys 
Corby n  G'dMothrs." 

"Thomas  Carter  son  of  Thomas  was  Born  on  the  4th  day  of 
June  1672  betw'n  3  &  4  aclock  in  ye  Morn8  and  was  Baptzd  att 
ye  new  Church  Aug1  5th.  Captn  John  Lee,  Mr  Th:  Hayne,  ye 
Lady  Ann  Skipworth  &  Elizh  Dale  godpar*9." 

"John  3d  Son  was  bornd  ye  8th  May  1674  and  bapd  Sund*y  y* 
2411  and  had  for  God  parents  Coll.  Jno :  Carter,  Mr  Jno  Stretchley 
and  Mrs  Ball." 

"Henry  Skipwith,  4th  sonn  Tho.  &  Kath.  Carter  bornd  of  a 
Wednsdy  the  7h  June  &  was  baptzd  att  Home  by  Rey  Mr  Dogette 
on  Sunday  aftr  Service  ye  18th  Cap"  Wm  Ball,  Capn  David  Fox 
and  Mrs  Srah  Fleete  standing. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  9 

"Diana  ye  Eldest  Daughr  Th:  &  Kathn  Carter  was  born  on  the 
last  Day  of  Apn  1678  near  5  in  the  Affnoone  and  Christnd  on 
Sunday  12  of  May  by  Mr  Doggett  when  was  Entertain11  a  large 
Company.  Mrs  Diana  Dale,  Mrs  Mary  Willys  &  Cap"  Ball  God 
parents.  She  Depart*1  this  Life  of  a  Putrid  Soar  Throate  at  ye 
age  of  2  yeares  and  3  days." 

"Wm  &  Nich0  twinn  sonnes  of  Tho :  Carter  born  2d  Novr  1679 
and  dyed  on  the  nth  &  12th  July  1680  of  a  Cholrey. 

"Elizabeth  2d  Dauter  was  Bornd  411  day  of  Ffeby  1680  about 
Sunrise  &  weighd  n  lbs.  Baptzd  at  Sl  Marys  Sunday  15  May 
Mrs  Margaret  Ball,  Mrs  Elizabeth  Rogers  &  Captain  Ball  stand- 
ing for  her. 

"Daniel  son  of  Thomas  &  Katharin  Carter  born  22d  Oct'br 
1682  and  died  on  the  3011  of  a  Fit." 

"James  8th  sonn  was  Borne  on  Christmas  Day  1684  it  being 
Thursday  at  2  in  the  morn8  &  was  Chrisnd  at  Home  on  Sundy. 
Mr  Jno  Edwards,  Mr  Tho.  Wilkes  &  Mrs  Edwards  standing  as 
God  parts." 

"Katharine  3d  Dau.  was  born  at  6  aclock  Easter  Morning  4h 
Ap1  1686  Bapd  on  Whit-Sundy  Mr  David  Fox  Mrs  Hannah  Fox 
&  Mrs  Sarah  Perrotte  Gdpts." 

"Peter  9th  Son  was  Born  near  Midnight  23d  May  1688  & 
Baptzd  on  3d  June  Mr  Edwin  Conaway,  Mr  Tho.  Dudly  &  Mri 
Ann  Chowning  standing." 

"Joseph  Youngest  son  born  Friday  28  Novr  1690  &  Christnd 
at  home  on  10th  Decr  Mr  Rob1  Carter  &  Mr  Joseph  Ball  God- 
fathrs  &  Mrs  Judith  Carter  Godmother." 

Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  Sr.  died  Oct.  22,  1700  "aged  about  70 
years." 

Mrs.  Catharine  Dale  Carter  died  May  10,  1703  in  the  51st 
year  of  her  life. 

Capt.  Carter's  will,  dated  Aug.  16,  1700  was  probated  Nov. 
14,  1700  by  his  second  son  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.  He  divided  his 
estate  as  follows:  Wife  Catharine  to  have  the  home  plantation 
for  the  rest  of  her  life,  a  negro  man  named  Dick,  the  great 
table,  and  one-third  of  the  remainder  of  his  personal  property. 
Sons  Edward,  Thomas,  Henry   (then  in  England)  and  John  to 


10  GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

each  have  a  hundred  acres  of  land ;  son  James  to  have  the  land 
devised  to  Henry  if  the  latter  did  not  return  from  England. 
Daughters  Elizabeth  and  Katharine,  and  sons  Peter  and  Joseph 
had  been  provided  for  by  their  grandfather  Dale.  Son-in-law 
William  George  to  account  for  1,560  pounds  of  tobacco  that  he 
had  advanced  him  on  the  Dale  estate  due  to  his  wife  from  her 
grandfather.  Son  Thomas  to  have  the  home  plantation  after  the 
death  of  his  mother.  The  rest  of  his  real  and  personal  estates  to 
be  divided  equally  between  all  children. 

Capt.  Carter  sealed  his  will  with  a  seal  showing  the  crest  of 
his  father-in-law,  Edward  Dale,  which  doubtless  was  more  con- 
venient at  the  time  of  signing  the  paper  than  his  own  seal.  The 
original  papers  in  Virginia  show  numerous  examples  of  men 
using  some  other  family  seal  than  their  own,  though  they  are 
known  to  have  possessed  one  with  their  own  crest  on  it. 

The  personal  estate  amounted  to  £236.  and  included  a  "parcel 
of  old  Bookes",  a  silver  drinking  pot,  tankard,  and  twelve  silver 
spoons,  beside  the  usual  household  and  plantation  furnishings  of 
a  man  of  his  class. 

I  obtained  from  a  Mr.  Dorit,  a  Lancaster  photographer,  a 
photograph  and  description  of  a  delapidated  old  frame  house 
standing  not  far  from  Corotoman  River,  and  said  to  have  been 
the  old  Carter  home.  It  is  a  long  wooden  building,  a  story  and 
a  half  high,  and  dormer  windows  front  and  back.  There  are 
four  rooms  and  a  small  hall  on  each  floor.  A  small  chimney  in 
the  center  and  a  great  inside  chimney  at  each  end  with  enormous 
fireplaces  upstairs  and  down.  On  either  side  of  these  end  chim- 
neys were  large  alcoves  or  closets  with  windows  in  them.  The 
main  rooms  were  about  sixteen  by  twenty- four  feet. 

Imagination  easily  pictures  Thomas  Carter  with  his  family  and 
neighbors  in  the  long  winter  evenings  gathered  about  the  huge 
log  fires  piled  high  in  these  wide  throated  chimneys  at  "Bar- 
ford."  And  while  the  boys  and  girls  played  the  old-time  Eng- 
lish games,  roasting  chestnuts,  telling  apple  seeds,  or  dancing  the 
old  English  dances,  their  elders  around  a  great  bowl  of  steaming 
punch  (as  was  the  custom),  sang  the  old  songs  and  told  tales  of 
the  old  days  "at  home" — their  hearts  and  minds  filled  with  happy 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  n 

recollections,  as  they  watched  the  tree  in  its  last  glorious  hour 
giving  back  its  memories  in  amethyst  and  sapphire  haze,  and 
gold  and  crimson  flame.  Memories,  like  those  of  the  men  and 
women  about  it,  of  blue  skies  and  lost  rainbows  of  Junes  far 
past ;  of  threatening  clouds  and  scurrying  snowflakes  of  gray 
days  untinged  with  gold.  The  sweet  perfume  of  flowers,  soft, 
clear  call  of  birds,  and  drifting  mounds  of  fallen  leaves — friendly 
ghosts  of  days  long  gone  conjured  back  in  swift  changing 
shadows  along  the  walls  and  floor. 

"I  love  you,  dwellings  of  the  long  ago, 

Round  you  a  glamour  of  old  sunlight  shines ; 
Beneath  your  eves  my  heart  her  nest  doth  know — 
Ah  wing'd  memories — amid  your  woven  vines. 

"Shades  of  the  generations  darkly  drawn 

Lengthen  themselves  athwart  your  threshold  gray, 
Cradled  have  ye  the  dreams  of  many  a  dawn. 
And  covered  o'er  the  fires  of  many  a  day." 


Ancestry  of  Katherine  Dale,  Wife  of 
Captain  Thomas  Carter 

The  Dales  and  Skipwiths. 

Among  the  royalists  who  sought  refuge  in  Virginia  after  the 
death  of  King  Charles  I.,  were  Sir  Grey  Skipwith  and  his 
brother-in-law  Edward  Dale,  Gentleman.  Sir  Grey  was  the 
second  son  of  Sir  Henry  Skipwith,  Baronet  of  Prestwould,  Lei- 
cestershire, whose  ancestry  goes  back  in  an  unbroken  line  to  the 
time  of  the  Conqueror;  and  Major  Dale  was  of  the  ancient  fam- 
ily of  Dale  of  Northampton  and  London,  which  originally  was 
of  county  Chester,  as  he  used  the  same  arms,  the  crest  of  which 
is  shown  on  his  seal  to  a  paper  at  Lancaster  Court  House,  Va. 

They  belonged  to  that  class  of  emigrants  to  Virginia,  who, 
Mr.  Philip  Alexander  Bruce  in  his  Social  History  of  Virginia  in 
the  Seventeenth  Century  says:  "Enjoyed  an  influence  in  the 
social  life  of  the  Colony  which  was  out  of  proportion  to  their 
mere  number.  Some  of  these  men,  as  we  have  seen,  were  per- 
sons of  rank  in  England ;  others  were  untitled  officers  in  the 
royal  armies,  and  with  few  exceptions  all  were  sprung  from  the 
English  landed  gentry.  They  brought  with  them  to  Virginia 
the  tastes  and  habits  of  the  society  in  which  they  moved,  and  to 
which  they  belonged  by  birth  as  well  as  by  association,  the  society 
of  the  English  country  gentleman." 

They  settled  on  the  Rappahannock,  but  on  different  sides  of 
it ;  Sir  Grey  Skipwith  in  what  is  now  Middlesex  County,  and 
Major  Dale  in  Lancaster.  Major  Dale  soon  began  taking  a 
prominent  part  in  county  affairs  and  from  1655  to  1674  was 
clerk  of  Lancaster  county;  from  1669  to  1684  a  Justice,  or  Com- 
missioner of  the  County  Court;  in  the  years  1670,  1671,  1679, 
and  1680  High  Shriff;  and  in  1677  and  1682-83  Member  of 
the  House  of  Burgesses. 

The  old  records  of  Lancaster  for  the  first  two  or  three  years 
after  the  county  was  organized  are  not  quite  complete,  but  Ed- 


Portrait  of   Major  Edward  Dale, 
(In   the  possession  of   Dr.  Joseph   Lyon   Miller,   Thomas.    W.    Va.) 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  13 

ward  Dale  appears  as  Clerk  of  the  county  in  1655,  and  thence 
continuously  until  May  10,  1674  when  John  Stretchley  took  the 
oath  as  clerk  of  the  county. 

In  Colonial  days  the  clerk  was  probably  the  most  important 
officer  next  after  the  County  Lieutenant,  and  besides  belonging 
to  the  local  gentry,  was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  his  county,  or 
what  that  champion  gossip,  Samuel  Pepys  denominates  "a  very 
great  man";  which  needs  no  other  proof  than  the  mention  of 
such  names  as  Sir  Marmaduke  Beckwith,  Sir  Grey  Skipwith, 
Peter  Beverley,  Benj.  Harrison,  Wm.  Nelson,  Wm.  Stanard, 
Wm.  Randolph,  Robert  Boiling,  Wm.  Fitzhugh,  Thomas  Lee 
and  dozens  of  other  names  of  equal  prominence,  whose  owners 
were  clerks  of  their  respective  counties.  The  clerks  were  also 
the  legal  advisers  to  a  large  part  of  their  constituents,  and  for  a 
time  were  permitted  to  act  as  attorneys  before  the  court,  but 
even  after  this  priviledge  was  taken  from  them  they  probably 
drew  up  more  deeds  and  wills  than  all  the  other  attorneys  in  the 
county.  Edward  Dale's  library  included  the  following  law 
books :  The  Compleat  Justice,  The  Office  of  a  Complete  Attor- 
ney (in  Octavo),  Jure  Maritimo  (Quarto),  De  Jureaments  by 
Sanderson,  The  Book  of  Oathes,  and  Virginia  Laws  (in  folio). 

From  sometime  in  1669  till  April  1684  Edward  Dale  was  a 
Justice  of  the  County  Court,  which  included  such  men  as  Cols. 
John  Carter,  Sr.  and  Jr.,  Capt.  David  Fox,  Capt.  Wm.  Ball, 
Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  Mr.  Rawleigh  Travers,  Mr.  Richard  Par- 
rott,  and  Mr.  John  Custis.  Mr.  Bruce  says,  "Throughout  the 
Seventeenth  century,  the  most  important  tribunal  in  Virginia  for 
the  administration  of  local  justice  was  the  monthly  or  county 
court."  He  continues,  "According  to  the  Act  of  1661-2,  the  jus- 
tices were  to  be  chosen  from  among  the  'most  able,  honest,  and 
judicious'  citizens  of  their  respective  counties.  *  *  *  There 
are  innumerable  proofs  that  they  were  drawn  from  the  body  of 
the  wealthiest,  most  capable  and  most  respected  men  to  be  found 
in  the  whole  community."  "The  office  of  a  justice  was  looked 
upon  as  being  so  purely  honorable  that,  following  the  English 
precedent,  it  carried  no  salary  in  the  strict  sense  of  the  term; 
nor  were  there  any  perquisites  growing  out  of  the  position  ap- 


I4  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

proaching  in  importance  those  which  made  the  office  of  Coun- 
cillor so  valuable  from  a  pecuniary  point  of  view."  The  judges 
on  the  county  bench  were  allowed  thirty  pounds  of  tobacco  from 
each  litigant  who  failed  to  win  his  case. 

The  old  records  show  that  in  the  years  1670,  1671,  1679  and 
1680  Major  Dale  was  High  Sheriff  of  Lancaster,  having  been 
chosen  by  the  governor  from  among  the  names  presented  to  him 
by  the  county  court,  as  for  example  the  court  held  for  March 
1679,  "Ordered  that  Mr.  Thomas  Grymes,  Major  Edward  Dale 
and  Mr.  Robt :  Griggs  be  presented  to  the  Rt.  Honble  Sr  Henry 
Chicheley  Lt.  Deputy  Govern1"  and  Capt  Generall  of  Virg*  in 
election  of  a  Sheriff  for  this  county  for  the  year  Ensuing."  And 
on  May  12,  1679,  "According  to  order  of  the  Right  Honoble  Sr 
William  Berkeley,  Kl.  Governor  and  Cap1  Gen11  of  Virginia  the 
oath  of  high  Sheriff  for  this  County  was  this  day  administered 
to  Maj°  Edward  Dale."  For  1680  his  commission  was  dated 
April  10,  and  he  took  the  oath  on  May  26th.  In  1681  he  ap- 
peared as  the  security  of  Capt.  David  Fox  who  was  commis- 
sioned high  Sheriff.  Bruce  says,  "From  some  points  of  view, 
the  sheriff  was  a  more  important  officer  than  the  clerk."  "The 
shrievalty  was  invested  with  as  much  dignity  in  Virginia  as  it 
was  in  the  Mother  Country  itself."  Blackstone,  the  great  Eng- 
lish jurist,  says  of  the  English  sheriff  that,  "as  the  keeper  of  the 
King's  Peace  both  by  common  law  and  special  commission,  he  is 
the  first  man  in  the  county  and  superior  in  rank  to  any  noble- 
man therein  during  his  office." 

In  Nov.  1677  and  January  1683  Major  Dale  received  from  the 
county  court  his  pay  as  a  Burgess  from  Lancaster  county — eight 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  fifty-five  pounds  for  each  service. 

The  date  of  Edward  Dale's  commission  as  a  major  in  the 
Lancaster  militia  has  not  been  ascertained,  he  appeared  in  a 
list  of  militia  officers  in  Virginia  in  1680  as  Major  Dale,  and 
in  the  various  court  records  previous  to  that  year.  Bruce  says, 
"The  members  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  belonged  to  the  circle 
of  foremost  citizens  of  the  colony.  Although  all  ranks  of  freemen 
enjoyed  the  franchise  down  to  1670,  there  is  no  indication  that 
this  system  of  universal  suffrage  led  to  the  frequent  election  of 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  15 

representatives  of  an  inferior  standing  from  a  social  point  of 
view."  And  of  the  officers  of  the  militia  that  "The  men  who 
bore  these  military  titles  were  the  foremost  in  all  the  various 
departments  of  action  represented  in  the  Colony." 

Maj.  Dale's  part  in  Bacon's  rebellion  seems  to  have  been  that 
he  represented  Lancaster  county  "Att  a  Committy  (by  Ordefr 
of  Ye  Grand  Assembly)  for  Laying  a  Levy  in  the  Northern 
Xeck  for  ye  charge  in  Raisinge  ye  forces  thereof  for  suppres- 
sing ye  late  rebellion  mett  at  Capt.  Beales  ye  14th  of  August 
1677  being  present  Mr.  Wm.  Presley,  Majr  Ed.  Dale,  Major 
Isaac  Allerton,  Mr.  Peter  Presley,  Coll.  Wm.  Travers,  Coll.  Sam1 
Griffin,  Coll.  George  Mason,  &  Mr.  Martin  Scarlett." 

In  addition  to  his  offices  in  Lancaster,  his  home  county,  Edward 
Dale  was  also  the  first  clerk  of  Westmoreland  county  between 
the  years  1652  and  1662,  running  the  office  by  the  help  of  a 
deputy. 

The  old  worthies  of  Seventeenth  century  Virginia  were  very 
careful  of  their  honor  and  dignity,  and  prompt  and  severe  in  their 
resentment  of  any  infringement  of  the  same.  On  February 
8th,  1670,  in  contending  for  a  point  of  this  kind  Mr.  Dale  routed 
the  entire  court,  causing  them  to  adjourn  without  transacting 
any  business,  as  the  only  record  of  their  meeting  is  as  follows : 
"Mr.  Edward  Dale,  Clerk  of  this  county  &  in  Commission  for 
the  peace,  and  high  Sherf.  of  this  County  conceiving  himself 
sufficiently  qualified  to. sett  covered  in  Court  wch  some  of  ye  sd 
Justices  would  not  allow  of  they  did  thereupon  adjourn  till  ye 
second  Wednesday  in  the  month  next."  During  his  fifteen  years 
on  the  county  bench  he  dissented  from  the  opinion  of  the  other 
justices  more  than  any  other  one  of  them,  and  always  saw  to 
it  that  his  dissentions  were  recorded.  Another  illustration  of  an 
affront  to  their  dignity  in  which  Major  Dale  played  a  part  is  as 
follows :  "Att  a  court  for  ye  County  of  Lancaster  Nov.  ye  8th  Ano 
Dni  1671  at  ye  Cort  house  these 

Mr.Will  Ball  Sen.  Mr.Bryan  Stott 

Mr.  George  Wale  Mr.  Robert  Beckinham 

Mr.  Tho:  Hayne  Mr.  Will  Ball,  Junr. 

Mr.  Robt.  Griggs  Mr.  Tho :  Marshall 

Mr.  Dan :  Harrison. 


l6        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

"Itt  manifestly  appearing  to  yis  Cort  several  of  its  members 
being  there  psonally  prte  that  on  Sonday  y*  first  of  yis  instant 
of  Nov:  in  ye  tyme  of  divine  service  at  ye  p'she  Church  of  St. 
Marys  White  Chappell  in  this  County  one  Richd  Price  did  after  a 
rude  irreligious  and  uncivil  manner  intrude  himselfe  into  ye 
seate  purposely  designed  and  made  use  off  by  his  Mats  Justi" 
of  ye  peace  for  this  County  there  beinge  then  psonally  psent 
inye  seate  two  of  ye  sd  Justics  \vth  Mr.  Edward  Dale  high  Sherr : 
of  y,s  County  whom  ye  sd  Price  did  rudely  force  backward  upon 
his  seate  whilst  he  endeavored  to  keep  ye  sd  Price  out  which 
behaviou1"  of  ye  sd  Price  tending  to  ye  dishon1"  of  God  Almighty, 
ye  Contempt  of  his  Matie  Mynister,  offence  of  ye  Congregation 
Scandall  to  religion  and  evil  example  of  others.  All  of  wch  this 
Court  taking  into  Consideration  and  fearing  they  might  bee 
thought  ptiall  (the  Vindicacon  of  their  sd  membs  and  Sheriff e 
considered)  have  ordered  that  Mr.  Edward  Dale  doe  send  a 
messengere  forthwith  to  ye  Right  Honble  Govern1-  to  crave  his 
honrs  speciall  warnt  to  command  ye  sd  Price  psonally  to  appear 
att  ye  next  Gen11  Cort  at  a  day  Certaine  to  answer  yo  said1 
Mr  Robert  Beverley  is  hereby  authorized  and  desired  to  precute 
ye  sd  Price  at  ye  sd  Court." 

The  existing  Lancaster  records  show  no  deed  to  Major  Edward 
Dale  prior  to  May  6,  1663,  when  he  had  a  certificate  for  750 
acres  by  assignment  from  Rich:  Perrott;  and  on  the  same  date 
five  hundred  acres  from  Richard  Merryman.  March  30th,  1662 
John  and  Margaret  Paine  sold  to  Richard  Merryman  "the  planta- 
tion whereon  Mr.  Edwd  Dale  now  liveth."  Feb.  2,  1664  Maj. 
Dale  had  a  deed  from  Edward  Lunsford  for  three  hundred  and 
fifty  acres  of  land  on  the  Eastermost  branch  of  Corotoman  River ; 
and  Dec.  14th.  of  same  year  a  deed  from  Wm.  Chappan  for 
700  acres  on  the  same  branch,  for  the  two  of  which  he  paid 
eleven  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco  for  five  hundred  acres ;  and 
in  May  1681  a  like  amount  to  Thomas  Chetwood,  merchant,  for 
six  hundred  acres  in  St.  Mary's  White  Chappel  parish  to  which 
he  removed  and  where  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

Of  this  thirty  four  hundred  acres  Maj.  Dale  deeded  five  hundred 
to  his  daughter  Katharine  Carter  in  1674,  and  six  hundred  acres 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  17 

to  his  daughter  Elizabeth  Rogers  in  1677.  In  all  of  his  deeds 
and  other  papers  he  was  always  styled  "Edward  Dale,  Gentle- 
man,'' a  title  that  in  the  seventeenth  century  was  defined  with 
legal  precision,  and  its  use  not  permitted  to  any  one  who  had 
not  the  right  to  it.  Major  Dale's  original  will  has  disappeared 
from  the  clerk's  office  at  Lancaster  court  house,  but  fortunately 
his  son-in-law,  Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  sealed  his  will  in  1700  with 
a  seal  that  shows  the  crest  of  the  Dales.  Mr.  Wm.  Armstrong 
Crozier,  a  well  known  New  York  genealogist  and  authority  on 
heraldry  says  this  seal  shows  the  crest  of  the  Dales  of  Northamp- 
ton and  London  and  gives  the  reading  as  following:  "On  a 
chapeau  gules  turned  up  ermine,  a  heron  argent,  beaked,  legged 
and  ducally  gorged  or."  The  arms  are:  "Gules  on  a  mount 
vert,  a  swan  arg.  Membered  and  ducally  gorged  or."  At  a 
visitation  of  the  heralds  from  the  College  of  Arms  in  1613  these 
arms  were  confirmed  to  Wm.  Dale,  Esq.,  of  Brigstock,  North- 
ampton. He  was  the  third  son  of  Robert  Dale,  Esq.,  of  Wencle 
in  the  county  of  Chester,  whose  first  and  second  sons  were,  Rob- 
ert, Jr.,  of  Wencle,  and  Roger  of  Inner  Temple,  London.  Edward 
Dale  of  Virginia  was  probably  a  son  of  one  of  these. 

Major  Dale  was  a  "cavalier''  or  adherent  of  King  Charles  I., 
as  is  plainly  shown  by  his  epitaph,  the  fact  that  he  enjoyed 
numerous  political  offices  under  that  rank  royalist  Sir  William 
Berkeley,  and  the  following  story  of  him  that  has  come  down 
through  his  descendants :  The  story  relates  that  upon  one  oc- 
casion a  stranger  stopped  at  Major  Dale's  house  one  day  just 
about  the  dinner  hour.  His  horse  was  sent  to  the  stable  and  he 
was  invited  to  join  the  family  at  the  dinner  just  then  being  served. 
When  they  were  seated  at  the  table  the  visitor  immediately  bowed 
his  head  and  offered  a  long  puritanical  prayer,  in  which  he 
asked  rich  blessings  upon  Oliver  Cromwell  (who  was  not  then 
dead)  and  especial  maledictions  on  the  head  of  the  pretender — 
Charles  II.  This  so  incensed  Major  Dale  that  he  ordered  the 
man  from  his  table,  sent  a  servant  for  his  horse  and  told  him 
to  hunt  his  dinner  elsewhere,  thus  in  his  loyalty  to  his  King 
transgressing  one  of  the  strongest  unwritten  laws  of  the  time — 
the  law  of  hospitality. 


38  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

A  three-quarter  length  portrait  of  Edward  Dale  handed  down 
in  the  Carter  family  showed  him  as  a  portly  brown-eyed  gentle- 
man dressed  in  black  velvet  coat,  dark  red  waistcoat,  cream  col- 
ored satin  breeches  and  a  powdered  wig.  At  the  close  of  the  war 
its  owner,  the  late  Col.  Thos.  Carter  of  Kentucky  removed  to 
Chicago,  where  the  portrait,  with  other  valuable  pictures  and 
heirlooms,  was  lost  in  the  great  fire  in  that  city.  A  copy  is  now 
owned  by  the  author. 

Dec.  8,  1674  "Edward  Dale  of  the  County  of  Lancaster  in 
Yirga  gent1,  as  well  for  and  in  consideration  of  a  marriage  already 
had  and  solomonized  between  Thomas  Carter  of  the  same  County 
Merch*  of  the  one  parte  and  Katharine  his  wife,  daughter  of 
mee  the  aforesaid  Edward  Dale,"  etc.,  conveys  to  Thomas  and 
Katharine  Carter  a  plantation  of  five  hundred  acres  in  Lancaster. 
His  wife,  Diana  Dale,  signing  the  deed  relinquishing  her  dower. 
On  the  same  day  they  conveyed  to  Thomas  Carter  and  wife 
a  negro  boy  named  Dick,  a  gray  mare  and  two-year-old  colt, 
six  young  cows  and  their  calves  and  half  the  hogs  on  the 
plantation. 

March  12,  1677,  Edward  and  Diana  Dale  deeded  to  their 
daughter  Elizabeth,  "now  the  wife  of  Mr.  William  Rodgers,  son 
of  Capt.  John  Rodgers  of  the  County  of  Northumberland,  a 
plantation  of  six  hundred  acres  in  Lancaster." 

Oct.  7,  1687  Maj.  Dale  conveyed  to  "Mpr.  Thomas  Carter  and 
wife,  Katharine,"  in  consideration  of  "love  and  affection,"  etc., 
two  negro  boys  named  James  and  Robin;  and  after  the  death  of 
Thomas  Carter  and  his  wife,  the  boy  Robin  was  to  go  to  Dale's 
grandson,  Edward  Carter,  and  the  other  negro  to  his  other 
Carter  grandchildren. 

"In  the  Name  of  God  Amen,  the  twenty  fourth  day  of  Aug1. 
1694.  I  Edward  Dale  of  the  County  of  Lancasf  in  Rapp'k 
River  in  Virg*  Gente.  being  of  Sound  &  perfect  Memory  God 
be  praised  doe  make  and  ordaine  this  my  last  will  &  Testament 
in  manner  and  forme  following.  Ffirst  I  commend  my  Soule 
into  the  hands  of  Almighty  God  my  Creator  and  Redeemer.  My 
body  to  the  Earth  from  whence  it  Came  to  bee  decently  interred 
wthout  any  wine  drinking. 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  19 

"As  for  such  worldly  Estate  as  it  pleased  God  to  bless  me 
wth  I  dispose  of  in  manner  and  forme  following. 
"Imp8,  if  it  shall  please  God  that  my  wife  shall  happen  to  out- 
live mee  I  give  unto  her  for  her  maintenance  during  her  life  the 
whole  proffit  of  my  Estate  whatsoever  it  being  had  to  her  as 
an  honest  woman  a  Gentlewoman,  and  a  great  many  years  my 
wife."'  After  the  death  of  his  wife  his  daughter  Katharine  Carter 
was  to  have  control  and  use  of  all  his  estate  until  his  Carter 
grandchildren  were  all  of  age,  when  it  was  to  be  divided  as 
follows.  Grandsons,  Peter  and  Joseph  Carter,  to  have  his  home 
plantation  in  St.  Mary's  parish  with  all  plantation  tools,  etc., 
and  a  negro  man  each  when  they  arrived  at  the  ago  of  twenty- 
one  years.  This  was  about  171 1,  as  in  January,  1712,  they  divided 
their  grandfather  Dale's  plantation.  Granddaughter  Elizabeth 
his  best  bed  and  furniture  and  a  trunk.  To  daughter  Elizabeth 
Rodgers  twelve  pounds  in  full  of  all  claims  on  his  estate.  The 
residue  of  estate  to  be  divided  equally  between  his  grandchildren, 
Elizabeth  and  Catharine,  Peter  and  Joseph  Carter,  when  they 
should  become  of  legal  age  or  marry.  Daughter,  Katharine 
Carter,  and  grandson,  Edward  Carter,  to  be  executors  of  his 
will,  and  granddaughter,  Elizabeth  Carter,  to  also  be  one  when 
she  arrived  at  the  age  of  sixteen. 

The  inventory  of  his  estate  was  returned  to  court  March  30, 
1695,  and  amounted  to  ten  thousand  and  six  hundred  and  seven 
pounds  of  tobacco.  It  included  besides  the  usual  household  and 
plantation  furniture  a  parcel  of  books,  three  pictures,  two  silver 
dram  cups  without  handles  and  a  pair  of  silver  tongs.  This 
inventory  does  not  list  his  books  separately,  but  two  of  them 
have  been  preserved  by  his  descendants,  and  in  one  of  them  is 
the  following: 

"A  list  of  Mr.  Edw:  Dales  Books 

16  Ffebry  1695— Taken  by  Tho :  Carter  Senr  & 

Edward  Carter. 
Vir  Laws — 1662 — folio 

Hist :  of  the  World— 1677-fol0  Sr  Walt :  Raleigh— 5  bookes. 
De  Juraments  1655 — Sanderson  24™° 


20       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Workes  :     Edmund  Spenser — 1679  folio. 
Sermons  for  All  the  Sundays  of  the  Year — 1673  fo10. 
The  Whole  Duty  of  Man— 1660. 
St.  Augustines  Prayers  1585 — Ffolio. 
Sylva  Sylvanum — Ffra:  Bacon — 1670 — Ffol°. 
Chron:  Kings  of  England — Richd.  Baker.     1684.  f ol : 
The  Sts.  everlasting  Rest  1653 — duodec. 
The  Book  of  Oathes  1649. 
Religio  Medico — Sr.  Tho:  Browne — 1659. 
Caba  Sive  Scrina  Sacra:  mysteryes  of  State   1663  fo: 
Chron:  of  Yeares — 1552 — i6mo. 
Shakespeares  Workes — 1632 — folio. 
Iohn  Donnes  Sermons — 1640.  foio. 
Eikon  Basilike — 1649 — 32™°. 

An  English  Exposition:  or  a  Compleat  Dictionary  1684. 
Cottoni  Posthuma — Sr  Ro1:   Cotton — 1679. 
The  Compl1.  Justice 

The  Office  of  a  Compl1.  Attorney — in  Oct™. 
Mellificium  Chirurgiae — Ja:  Cooke — 1648. 
Ciceros    Orations — 1645 — fol°. 
Military  Disciplin  in  Quart0. 
Jure  Maritino  in  Quart0. 
Common  Prayer  Book — in  Quarto  1633. 
Josepus — Workes — 1609  fol°. 
Hist :  of  ye  Low  Countries  in  folio  2  bookes. 
The  Holy  Bibel  in  Quarto  1649. 

The  Rump:  Choysest  poems  &  Songs  of  ye  late  Times — 1662. 
Gen1.  Hist :  of  Ffrance  in  folio — in  2  bookes  1644. 
Satyres  of  Decimus  Juns.  Juvenalis — in  Quarto — 1673. 
The  Practice  of  Physick — Nich:  Culpeper — 1678. 
Godfrey   de   Boulogne :   or   the   Recoverie   of   Ierusalem — Edw : 
Ffairfax — 1624. 

The  above  list  of  books  containing  works  on  medicine,  law, 
religion,  poetry,  history,  and  natural  science  show  that  Major 
Edward  Dale  was  a  broad  and  catholic  minded  man  in  his  edu- 
cation and  reading.  The  list  also  shows  that  he  selected  the 
best,   as    Spenser,    Shakespeare.    Bacon,   Josephus,    Cicero,    and 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  21 

Juvenal  are  classics  to-day.  His  copy  of  Juvenal  and  the  Post- 
humous Collection  of  Sir  Robert  Cotton  are  yet  in  existence. 
On  the  inside  of  the  front  cover  of  the  Juvenal  in  a  large  and 
fine  hand  is  written— "Sir  Wm.  Skipwith  nt.  to  Major  Edw:  Dale 
Sep1.  16:  1686:"  and  below  it  is,  "Edw  Dale  to  Edw  Carter." 

I  have  not  been  able  to  locate  Major  Dale's  tomb  either  in  the 
St.  Marys  White  Chappel  yard,  near  which  his  home  was  lo- 
cated or  in  the  neighboring  private  graveyards.  His  epitaph, 
either  as  it  appeared  on  his  tomb  or  as  it  was  expected  to  appear 
is  recorded  in  the  Carter  Prayer  Book,  and  is  as  follows,  the 
inscription  being  preceded  by  a  faded  drawing  of  the  Dale  arms 
enclosed  in  a  circle,  which  by  its  shading  indicates  that  the  arms 
were  sunk  below  the  surface  of  the  stone : 

(Arms) 

Hie  Depcsitum 

Spe  certe  resurgendi  in  Christo 

quicquid  habuit  Mortale 

EDWARDUS  DALE,  ARMIGER. 

Tandem  honorum  et  dierum  Obiit 

2°  Feby:  Anno  Dom :   1695. 

He  descended  from  an  Ancient  Family 

in  England  &  came  into  ye  Colly 

of  Yirg*  after  the  Death  of  his  Unhappy 

Master  Charles  Ffirst. 
For  above  30  years  he  enjoyed 
various  Employments  of  Public  Trust 
in  ye  Coty  of  Lancaster  wcb  he 
Discharged  wth  great  Fidelity  &  Satisfac". 

to  the  Governor  &  People. 
As  Neighbor — Father — Husband  he  Ex 
celled  and  in  early  yeares  Crown" 
his  other  Accomplishments  by  a 

Felicitous  Marriage 
wth  Diana  ye  daughter  of  Sr  Henry  Skypwith 
of  Preswold  in  ye  Coty  of  Leicester  Bar1 
who  is  left  a  little  while  to  Mourn  Him. 


22        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

The  above  epitaph  shows  that  Edward  Dale's  wife  was  Diana 
Skipwith,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Skipwith  of  Prestwold,  Leices- 
tershire;  and  the  following  letter   from  her  brother   Sir   Grey 
Skipwith,  substantiates  it: 
"Brother  Dale. 

Pray  do  me  the  favor  to  acknowledge  in  court  on  my  behalf 
two  bills  of  sale  for  Cattle  made  to  Mary  Bayley  and  this  my 
note  shall  impower  you  for  the  doing  of  it  as  full  as  any  letter 
of  attorney. 

Sr  I  have  not  else  only  our  love  presented  to  yrselfe  and  my 
sister. 

Sr  I  am  your  lo :  brother  GREY    SKIPWITH. 

Febr:  primo  1664." 

The  above  letter  is  recorded  on  page  364,  Record  Book  No. 
2,  Lancaster  County,  Virginia. 

Mr.  Austin  Skipwith,  of  Prestwould,  Mecklenburg  County, 
Va.,  writes  me  that  an  old  copy  of  Burke  says  "that  to  Sir  Henry 
Skipwith  of  Prestwould,  Leicestershire,  was  born  four  sons  and 
two  daughters,  viz :  Grey,  William,  Henry,  Thomas,  Elizabeth 
and  Diana.";  but  he  has  no  record  that  will  show  the  date  of 
the  marriage  of  Edward  and  Diana  Dale. 

With  the  above  conclusive  evidence  of  the  parentage  of  Diana 
Dale  I  will  give  an  account  of 

The  Skipwiths. 

The  Skipwith  family  is  one  of  the  most  ancient  in  England, 
going  back,  as  it  does,  to  the  time  of  William  the  Conquerer, 
and,  in  fact,  through  a  marriage  of  one  of  its  members  in  the 
sixteenth  century,  can  trace  back  to  the  Conqueror  himself. 
The  following  account  of  this  family  is  taken  in  the  main  from 
Burke's  Extinct  and  Dormant  Baronetcies. 

This  family,  originally  written  Schypwyc,  and  denominated 
from  a  town  and  lordship  so  called  in  the  East  Riding  of  York, 
descends  from  Robert  de  Estoteville,  Baron  of  Cottingham  in 
the  time  of  the  Conqueror,  of  whom  and  his  descendants,  the 
feudal  lords  of  Cottingham,  Dugdale  treats  fully,  and  at  length 
in  his  baronasre. 


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The  first  Robert  de  Estoteville  had  a  son,  Robert,  Jr.,  who 
acquired  a  great  inheritance  with  his  wife,  Emburga,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Hugh,  son  of  Baldrick,  a  great  Saxon  Thane,  and 
among  other  lands  had  the  lordship  of  Schypwyc,  or  Skipwic. 
He  left  three  sons :  Robert,  his  heir  from  whom  the  Lords  of 
Cottingham ;  Osmond,  who  died  at  Joppa,  in  Palestine,  in  one 
of  the  Crusades,  and  was  ancestor  of  the  Estotevilles  of  Gressing 
Hall ;  and  Patrick  of  Skipwith,  who  having  by  gift  from  their 
father,  the  lordship  of  Skipwith,  his  descendants  took  their  name 
therefrom,  in  accordance  with  the  custom  of  the  age.  He  married 
Beatrice,  daughter  of  Sir  Pagun  De  Langtun,  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  son,  Jeffrey  De  Schypwith,  who  married  Marian,  daughter 
of  Wm.  De  Schypwith,  was  hostage  for  the  Lord  Scales  in  the 
Barons'  War  in  the  ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  King  John.  His 
son  and  heir,  Sir  William  De  Skipwith,  Lord  of  Skipwith  in 
the  time  of  King  Henry  III.,  married  a  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Thorp,  and  heir  of  Sir  Wm.  Thorp,  through  whom  he  became 
possessed  of  a  great  estate  in  Lincolnshire.  He  was  the  last 
of  the  family  to  reside  at  Skipwith  in  York.  Their  son,  Sir 
John  De  Skipwith,  living  at  Thorp,  was  sometimes  styled  De 
Thorp.  He  had  the  estate  of  Beakley  from  his  mother  and  the 
estate  of  Wranby  by  his  wife,  Isabella,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 
De  Arches,  Knight. 

He  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  John  De  Skipwith,  who  re- 
sided at  Beakley,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Herbert  de 
Klinton  of  Yorkshire,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  William  de 
Skipwith,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Ralph  FitzSimon, 
Lord  of  Ormsby  in  County  Lincoln  and  sister  and  sole  heir  of 
Simon  Fitz  Ralph,  whence  came  that  inheritance  which  was  in  the 
possession  of  Sir  Ralph  Fitz  Simon,  Knight,  who  in  several 
charters  was  termed  "Nobilis"  and  had  obtained  the  estate  and 
manor  by  his  wife,  daughter  and  heir  of  Ormsby  of  Ormsby. 
From  this  marriage  of  Wm.  De  Skipwith  came  three  sons : 
John,  eldest  son,  d.  s.  p.,  in  the  tenth  year  of  the  reign  of 
Edward  III.,  the  same  year  in  which  his  father  died ;  Sir  Ralph 
(3rd  son),  from  whom  descended  the  Skipwiths  of  Heburgh 
in  Lincolnshire ;   and   Sir  William,   2nd  son,  who  was  bred  to 


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the  bar  and  was  King's  Sergeant  in  the  thirty-third  year  of  the 
reign  of  Edward  III.,  three  years  later  Lord  Chief  Baron  of 
the  Exchequer,  which  he  held  for  four  years.  He  married 
Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  Win.  de  Hiltoft,  and  left  Sir  William, 
Sir  John,  Patrick,  Stephen,  Alice  and  Margaret. 

Sir  William,  Jr.,  also  bred  to  the  bar,  was  a  justice  of  the 
King's  bench  in  the  fiftieth  year  of  the  reign  of  Edward  III., 
and  renewed  his  patent  in  the  first  year  of  Richard  II.  Was 
senior  judge  of  the  court,  and  his  name  is  handed  down  with 
highest  honor  by  historians.  He  left  but  one  daughter  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  brother,  Sir  John  Skipwith,  who  was  High 
Sheriff  of  Lincoln  in  the  century,  Richard  II.,  and  a  Knight  in 
Parliament  from  Lincoln  in  temp.  Henry  V.  He  married  Alice, 
daughter  of  Sir  Frederick  Tilney,  and  left  three  sons :  William, 
d.  s.  p.,  Sir  Thomas  and  Patrick,  from  whom  the  Skipwiths 
of  Utterly  in  Lincolnshire.  Sir  Thomas  Skipwith  distinguished 
himself  in  the  French  wars  and  was  knighted  in  France  by 
King  Henry  V.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  John,  Lord 
Willoughby  de  Eresby,  and  died  before  the  nineteenth  year  of 
the  reign  of  Henry  VI.,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Sir  Wm. 
Skipwith,  who  owned  twelve  different  estates  in  the  counties  of 
York  and  Lincoln.  Like  his  father  he  was  knighted  in  France 
by  Henry  VI.,  and  was  sheriff  of  Lincoln  in  the  thirty-seventh 
year  of  that  King's  reign.  He  then  married  Agnes,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Constable,  Knight  of  Burton-Constable,  and  had  John 
and  Alice,  and  died  in  the  first  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VII. 
Sir  John  Skipwith  was  made  a  Knight  Banneret  for  his  services 
against  the  Cornish  rebels,  being  with  the  King  at  the  battle 
of  Blackheath.  He  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Richard 
Fitz  William,  Esq.,  of  Woodworth,  and  had  Sir  William  and 
four  daughters. 

Sir  William  Skipwith,  Knight,  was  sheriff  of  Lincoln  in  the 
eighteenth  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Sir  Wm.  Tyrwhit,  Knight,  of  Kettleby,  and 
had  Sir  William,  Lionel,  John,  George  and  four  daughters.  This 
wife  died  and  Sir  William  then  married  Alice,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Sir  Lionel  Dymoke  of  Scrivelsby,  by  whom  he  acquired 


■  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  2$ 

a  large  estate.  By  this  second  marriage  there  was  issue  but 
one  child,  Henry  Skipwith,  who  became  the  ancestor  of  the 
Skipwiths  of  Prestwould,  Leicestershire,  and  of  the  Skipwiths 
and  Dales  of  Virginia.  It  is  through  this  Dymoke  ancestress 
that  the  Skipwiths  of  Prestwould  trace  back  to  King  Henry 
III.,  which  will  be  given  later. 

Henry  Skipwith,  Esq.,  only  son  of  Sir  William  Skipwith  of 
Ormsby,  and  his  second  wife  purchased  the  estate  of  Prestwould, 
in  Leicestershire.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Francis  Hall  of 
Grantham,  and  died  in  1588;  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son, 
Henry  Skipwith,  who  was  created  the  first  baronet  of  Prest- 
would, December  20,  1622.  He  married  Amy,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Kempe,  Knight,  by  whom  he  had  four 
sons  and  two  daughters,  viz,  Sir  Henry,  d.  s.  p. ;  Sir  Grey, 
removed  to  Virginia  during  the  usurption  of  Cromwell,  etc. ; 
William,  Thomas,  Elizabeth,  and  Diana,  who  married  Edward 
Dale  and  removed  to  Virginia. 

Sir  Henry  Skipwith,  the  first  baronet  of  Prestwould,  father 
of  Diana  Dale,  was  a  poet  and  man  of  letters,  and  is  spoken 
of  by  Barton  in  1622  as  follows:  "Sir  Henry  Skipwith,  I  cannot 
pass  over  in  silence,  for  his  so  many  good  parts — his  person, 
his  valour,  his  learning,  his  judgment  and  wisdom  do  challenge 
more  than  I  can  express  among  the  rest,  yet  I  cannot  omit  to 
speak  of  his  witty  conceits  in  making  fit  and  acute  epigrams, 
poems,  mottoes  and  devices."  Sir  Henry  was  commissioned  by 
King  Charles  I.  to  raise  troops  against  the  Parliament  forces 
under  Cromwell,  which  like  to  have  cost  him  his  life,  and  com- 
pelled his  son,  Sir  Grey,  to  seek  refuge  in  Virginia.  This  is  set 
forth  on  the  tombstone  of  Sir  Wm,  Skipwith,  now  in  the  church- 
yard at  Blandford,  Va.  In  1653  Sir  Henry  Skipwith  sold  Prest- 
would to  Sir  Christopher  Packe,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  in 
1655  and  an  adherent  of  Cromwell.  It  is  thought  that  Sir  Henry 
was  compelled  to  sell  his  estate  to  Sir  Christopher  Packe  by 
Cromwell  and  his  party  in  order  to  save  himself  from  a  worse 
fate  because  of  his  adherence  to  the  royalist  party. 

Accounts  of  the  Skipwith  family  in  Virginia  have  appeared 
in  print  several  times,  a  most  excellent  one  by  Mrs.  Sally  Nelson 


26       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Robins  in     The  Times-Dispatch  on  August   15,   1909,  so  their 
history  will  not  be  given  here. 

Dymoke. 

Sir  William  Skipvvith,  Knight,  sheriff  of  Lincolnshire,  in  the 
eighteenth  year  of  the  reign  of  King  Henry  VIII.  married,  as 
his  second  wife,  Alice,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Lionel  Dymoke 
of  Scrivelsby  and  had  an  only  son,  Henry  Skipwith,  Esq.,  of 
Pres would,  Leicestershire.  He  died  in  1588  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  only  son,  Henry  Skipwith,  who  was  created  baronet  of 
Pres  would  in  1622.  His  youngest  daughter,  Diana,  was  the  wife 
of  Maj.  Edward  Dale,  of  Lancaster  county,  Va.,  and  mother 
of  Katharine  Dale,  wife  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  Sr. 

It  is  through  the  Dymoke  ancestress  that  the  Skipwiths  and 
Carters  derive  their  "royal  lineage''  and  trace  back  to  King 
Henry  III.  Besides  his  high  estate  and  royal  power,  Henry 
III.  possessed  not  a  noble  characteristic,  nevertheless  through  him 
comes  royal  blood  that  is  royal  in  the  persons  of  Henry  II., 
William  "The  Conqueror,"  and  other  early  English,  Scotch  and 
French  monarchs. 

Henry  III.'s  wife  was  Eleanor  of  Provence.  Their  son,  Henry 
Plantaganet,  Earl  of  Leicester,  married  Blanche,  daughter  of 
Robert,  Earl  of  Artois,  and  granddaughter  of  Louis  VIII.  of 
France.  They  had  a  son,  Henry,  Earl  of  Leicester,  who  married 
Lady  Maud,  daughter  of  Patrick,  third  Baron  de  Mowbray. 
Their  son,  John  de  Mowbray,  married  Elizabeth,  the  only  child 
of  John,  Lord  Segrave,  and  had  a  daughter,  Margery  de  Mow- 
bray, who  married  John,  Baron  de  Welles,  and  had  a  son,  Eudo 
de  Welles,  who  married  Lady  Maud,  daughter  of  a  Baron  de 
Greystock.  They  had  a  son,  Sir  Lionel  de  Welles,  who  married 
Joan,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Waterton,  and  had  a  daughter, 
Margaret  de  Welles,  who  married  Sir  Thomas  Dymoke.  They 
were  the  parents  of  Sir  Lionel  Dymoke,  who  married  Joan, 
daughter  of  Richard  Griffith  of  Stockford,  and  had  a  daughter, 
Alice,  who  married  Sir  William  Skipwith  of  Ormsby;  and  thus 
comes  the  royal  blood  of  the  Skipwiths  and  Carters. 

Through   Matilda  of   Flanders,   wife  of  William   "The  Con- 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  27 

queror,"  the  Dymoke  line  of  descent  extends  back  through  the 
Counts  of  Flanders  to  Baldwin  I.,  Count  of  Flanders,  who  married 
Judith,  daughter  of  Charles  II.,  "The  Bald,"  King  and  Roman 
Emperor,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Charlemagne,  one  of  the  world"s 
greatest  rulers.  Through  the  wife  of  Henry  I.  of  England, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Malcolm  III.,  King  of  Scotland,  and  his 
wife,  the  Saxon  Princess  Margaret,  called  ''Saint  Margaret," 
the  Dymoke  line  extends  back  through  the  Kings  of  Scotland 
and  early  English  Kings  to  the  good  King  Alfred  "The  Great." 
Through  the  de  Mowbrays  the  Dymokes  trace  back  to  Phillip 
II.  of  Swabia,  German  Roman  Emperor,  and  from  him  through 
a  line  of  German  Emperors  back  to  Charlemagne  again,  includ- 
ing in  the  line  the  greatest  among  the  German  Roman  Emperors, 
Frederick  I.,  "Barbarosa,"  elected  Emperor  in  11 52;  Henry  III., 
"Niger"  ;  the  two  great  Ottos  and  others. 

With  the  above  outline  as  a  base,  those  who  may  wish  to 
do  so,  can  trace  out  the  various  lines  and  find  enough  noble 
and  royal  ancestors  to  "fill  a  book." 

Aside  from  their  royal  and  illustrious  ancestry,  the  history  of 
the  Dymoke  family  is  full  of  interest,  as  for  a  thousand  years 
they  have  held  one  of  the  most  picturesque  and  historic  of  the 
hereditary  offices  to  be  found  in  England,  that  of  Champion  to 
the  King  on  his  coronation.  The  office  of  Champion  was  in- 
stituted by  William  "The  Conqueror,"  who  entrusted  it  to  Robert 
de  Marmion,  conferring  upon  him  at  the  same  time  the  Castle 
of  Tamworth  and  the  Manor  of  Scrivelsby,  in  Lincolnshire,  de- 
creeing that  the  office  should  always  pertain  to  the  Lord  of  the 
Manor  of  Scrivelsby. 

Though  in  the  past  hundred  years  the  appearance  of  the  Cham- 
pion as  a  part  of  the  coronation  ceremonies  has  become  obsolete, 
in  the  days  of  long  ago  none,  perhaps,  of  all  the  splendid  and 
picturesque  ceremonies  held  in  connection  with  the  coronation 
pageant  of  the  Kings  and  Queens  of  England  was  more  inter- 
esting, and  certainly  none  pertook  more  of  chivalry  than  that 
of  the  Champion's  challenge. 

In  ancient  times  as  soon  as  the  King  and  Queen  were  crowned 
they  sat  down  to  the  royal  banquet,  spread  in  Westminster,  and 


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during  the  course  of  this  the  great  doors  of  the  Abbey  were 
thrown  open  and  the  Champion  appeared  on  a  magnificient 
charger,  both  clad  from  head  to  foot  in  armor,  and  at  two  or 
three  stations  in  the  great  hall,  he  loudly  challenged  all  comers 
to  deny  the  right  and  title  of  the  sovereign,  and,  throwing  his 
gauntlet  upon  the  floor,  offered  to  defend  their  claims  against 
any  one  with  lance,  sword  or  mace.  The  King  then  drank  from 
a  golden  goblet,  which  was  refilled  and  presented  to  the  Cham- 
pion, who  drained  it  and  carried  the  goblet  away  as  a  perquisite 
of  his  office.  Descriptions  of  several  of  these  ceremonies  have 
been  preserved,  but  I  will  give  here  only  the  first  and  last. 
Some  of  the  perquisites  of  the  champion  by  prescriptive  right 
were : 

"One  of  the  King's  best  coursers,  the  second  best  in  the  royal 
stable,  with  saddle,  harness  and  trappings  of  cloth  of  gold ; 
one  of  the  King's  best  suits  of  armour,  with  cases  of  cloth  of 
gold,  and  all  other  things  belonging  to  the  King's  body  when  he 
goes  into  mortal  combat."  Historians  have  enumerated  the  arms 
provided  for  Sir  Charles  Dymoke,  Royal  Champion  at  the  Coro- 
nation of  King  James  II.  in  1685,  as  follows:  "A  complete  suit 
of  white  armour,  a  pair  of  gauntlets,  a  sword  and  hanger,  a 
case  of  rich  pistols,  an  oval  shield  with  the  Champion's  arms 
painted  upon  it  and  a  gilded  lance  fringed  about  the  handle ; 
also  a  field  saddle  of  crimson  velvet  with  gold  and  silver,  a  plume 
of  red,  white  and  blue  feathers,  consisting  of  eighteen  falls  and 
a  heron's  top.  Another  plume  for  the  horses  head  and  trumpet 
banners  with  the  champion's  own  arms  depicted  upon  them." 

The  first  appearance  of  the  King's  Champion  in  England,  of 
which  we  have  knowledge  was  at  the  coronation  of  William,  Duke 
of  Normandy,  and  his  wife,  Matilda  of  Flanders,  as  King  and 
Queen  of  England,  1068  A.  D.,  at  Winchester.  The  challenge  was 
delivered  upon  this  occasion  by  Robert,  Lord  Marmyum  in  the 
following  words :  "If  any  person  deny  that  our  most  gracious 
sovereigns,  Lord  William  and  his  spouse,  Matilda,  are  King  and 
Queen  of  England,  he  is  a  falsehearted  traitor  and  liar,  and  I,  as 
Champion,  do  challenge  him  to  single  combat." 

Robert  Marmyum,  Lord  of  Castle  Fontenay  in  Normandy,  and 


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a  descendant  of  "Rollo  the  Dane/'  who  was  made  Dtike  of 
Normandy  by  Charles  III.  of  France,  was  in  Normandy  the 
hereditary  Champion  of  Duke  William  of  Normandy,  his  kins- 
man, later  "William  the  Conqueror,"  and  thus  the  office  was  car- 
ried into  England. 

The  last  official  appearance  was  at  the  coronation  of  King 
George  IV.,  July  19,  1821.  Since  then  the  coronation  banquet  has 
been  abolished  and  with  it  the  public  appearance  of  the  Champion. 
King  Edward  VII.  changed  the  office  from  that  of  hereditary 
Champion,  to  hereditary  Bearer  of  the  Royal  Standard.  When 
this  change  was  made,  Frank  Dymoke,  Esq.,  of  Scrivelsby  pre- 
sented to  the  King  a  suit  of  armor  that  for  centuries  'has  been 
used  at  the  coronation  of  English  Kings,  which  is  now  preserved 
at  WTinsor  Castle.  The  banquet  scene  at  the  coronation  of  King 
George  IV.  is  thus  described  : 

"Westminster,  the  scene  of  this  magnificent  pageant,  which 
was  one  of  the  most  memorable  and  splendid  coronations  ever 
held  there,  was  a  spectacle  which  beggars  description.  The  in- 
termixture of  waving  plumes,  glittering  jewels  and  beautiful 
costumes  of  the  assembled  multitude,  the  magnificent  coronation 
robes  of  the  nobles,  and  in  some  instances  the  grotesque,  though 
splendid  dresses  of  those  who  were  to  form  part  of  the  grand 
procession,  excited  wonder  and  admiration  and  gave  a  singu- 
larly striking  appearance  to  the  scene. 

"As  soon  as  the  procession,  which  moved  upon  the  royal  blue 
cloth,  spread  from  the  throne  in  Westminster  Hall  to  the  great 
steps  in  the  Abbey  Church,  where  the  coronation  was  to  take 
place,  had  left  the  hall,  the  scene  was  immediately  changed,  when 
the  floor,  which  only  a  few  moments  before  had  been  thronged 
with  by  far  the  greater  portion  of  the  nobles  of  the  land  in 
all  their  pomp  and  splendor,  was  now  taken  possession  of  by 
workmen  and  Who  transformed  the  hall  as  if  by  magic  into  a 
great  banquet  hall.  On  each  side  of  the  throne,  sideboards  were 
erected,  which  were  quickly  loaded  with  massive  gold  plate,  and 
the  great  tables  down  each  side  of  the  hall  were  spread  with 
covers  for  334.  The  royal  table  had  covers  for  seven  and  displayed 
a  magnificent  service  of  gold.     lust  before  the  return  of  the 


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coronation  procession  to  the  banquet  hall,  the  26  great  chandeliers 
and  twelve  beautiful  candelabras  on  the  tables,  making  upwards  of 
2,000  candles  were  lighted. 

"Before  the  first  course,  which  was  served  in  twenty-four  gold- 
covered  dishes,  carried  by  many  gentlemen  pensioners,  preceded 
by  a  large  number  of  attendants  representing  all  the  officers  of  the 
household  and  four  sergeants-at-arms,  was  placed  upon  the  royal 
table  by  the  clerks  of  the  kitchen,  the  great  doors  at  the  lower 
end  of  the  hall  were  thrown  open  to  the  sound  of  trumpets  and 
clarions,  and  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  as  Lord  High  Constable ; 
the  Marquis  of  Anglesea,  as  Lord  High  Steward,  and  Lord  Effing- 
ham, as  the  Deputy  Earl  Marshall,  entered  upon  the  floor,  mounted 
upon  richly  caparisoned  horses.  The  Duke  of  Wellington  was 
on  the  right  and  the  Earl  Marshall  on  the  left,  on  beautiful  white 
steeds,  and  the  Marquis  of  Anglesea  in  the  center  on  a  magnificent 
dun-colored  Arabian.  Each  was  followed  by  a  groom  and  at 
the  'head  of  each  horse  walked  a  page. 

"Pausing  for  a  moment  under  the  archwray  as  the  trumpet 
sounded,  they  proceeded  slowly  down  the  aisle  between  the  tables 
to  the  foot  of  the  throne,  where  they  remained  while  the  twenty- 
four  golden  dishes  were  being  placed  upon  the  table.  As  the 
gentlemen  pensioners  delivered  the  dishes  to  the  attendants  they 
retired  one  by  one  backward  between  the  horses  and  were  fol- 
lowed by  the  three  noblemen,  who  backed  their  steeds  with  great 
skill  down  the  center  of  the  hall. 

"The  first  course  having  been  removed,  the  attention  of  the 
assemblage  was  called  to  the  bottom  of  the  hall  once  more  by  a 
loud  and  continued  flouris'h  of  trumpets.  The  great  doors  were 
instantly  thrown  open,  and  the  King's  Champion  made  his  ap- 
pearance under  the  Gothic  archway,  mounted  on  a  splendid 
charger.  He  was  accompanied  on  the  right  by  the  Duke  of  Wel- 
lington, and  on  the  left  by  Lord  Howard,  but  his  polished  steel 
armor,  his  plumes  and  the  trappings  of  his  steed  instantly  pro- 
claimed the  capacity  in  which  he  appeared.  He  was  ushered 
within  the  limits  of  the  hall  by  two  trumpeters  with  the  arms 
of  the  Champion  on  their  banners,  and  by  the  sergeant  trumpeter, 
and  by  two  sergeant-at-arms  with  maces.     An  esquire  in  half 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  31 

armour  was  on  either  side,  the  one  bearing  the  lance  and  the 
other  the  shield.  Each  horseman  was  followed  by  a  groom  and 
at  the  head  of  each  was  a  page. 

•'The  first  challenge  was  given  at  the  entrance  to  the  hall, 
the  trumpets  having  flourished  three  times.  It  was  read  by  the 
herald  attending  the  Champion :  Tf  any  person  of  what  degree 
soever,  high  or  low,  shall  deny  or  gainsay  our  Sovereign  Lord 
King  George  IV.  of  the  United  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  son  and  next  heir  to  our  Sovereign 
Lord  King  George  III.,  the  last  King  deceased,  to  be  the  right 
heir  to  the  Imperial  crown  of  this  United  Kingdom,  or  that  he 
ought  not  to  enjoy  the  same,  here  is  his  champion,  who  sairh 
that  he  lieth,  and  is  a  false  traitor,  being  ready  in  person  to  combat 
with  him,  and  in  the  quarrel  will  adventure  his  life  against  him 
on  what  day  soever  he  shall  be  appointed"'  After  pausing  a 
few  seconds  the  Champion  drew  off  his  gauntlet  and  threw 
it  upon  the  floor.  As  no  one  appeared  to  accept  the  challenge, 
the  herald  took  up  the  glove  and  returned  it  to  the  Champion. 
The  cavalcade  then  advanced  half  way  up  the  hall,  where  it 
again  halted,  and  after  the  trumpets  sounded,  the  same  chal- 
lenge was  given  as  before. 

At  the  foot  of  the  throne  the  service  was  again  repeated.  Loud 
shouts  of  "Long  live  the  King" !  followed  each  restoration  of  the 
gauntlet.  His  Majesty,  taking  the  golden  goblet  from  his  cup- 
bearer drank  to  the  bold  challenge,  then  the  Champion  received 
the  cup  and  drank  to  the  King — "Long  live  His  Majesty,  King 
George  the  Fourth."  After  draining  the  cup  the  Champion  gave 
it  to  one  of  the  pages,  who  bore  it  away  as  a  perquisite  of  his 
master." 

At  the  coronation  of  King  George  II.,  when  the  Champion, 
Lewis  Dymoke,  threw  down  his  gauntlet,  an  unknown  man  leapt 
from  the  crowd  and  seized  it.  A  rush  was  made  for  him  by  the 
sergeants-at-arms,  but  the  crowd,  largely  composed  of  Jacobite 
sympathizers,  opened  a  lane  for  his  escape.  Many  persons  pro- 
fessed to  recognize  in  the  daring  intruder,  the  young  pretender 
himself. 

The  last  of  the  Marmions  was  Sir  Philip,  a  statesman,  who 


32  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

died  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III.,  leaving  but  two  daughters,  the 
eldest  of  whom  inherited  Tamworth  Castle  in  Warwickshire  and 
became  the  ancestress  of  the  Grevilles,  the  other  inherited  Scriv- 
elsly  and  became  the  ancestress  of  the  Dymokes.  For  some  time  the 
tenure  of  the  Royal  Championship  was  in  doubt,  but  the  Court  of 
Claims  decided  in  accordance  with  the  original  grant  to  Lord 
Robert  de  Marmyum,  that  the  office  of  Champion  belonged  to  the 
owner  of  Scrivelsby,  and  accordingly  Sir  John  Dymoke,  the  grand- 
son of  Sir  Philip  Marmion,  was  the  Champion  at  the  coronation  of 
Richard  II.  Sir  Robert  Dymoke  was  the  Champion  to  three  of 
England's  rulers,  Richard  III.,  Henry  VII.  and  Henry  VIII. 
Sir  Edward  Dymoke  was  also  Champion  for  three  of  his  sover- 
eigns, Edward  VI.,  and  Queens  Mary  and  Elizabeth. 

Sir  Edward  Dymoke's  wife  was  Lady  Ann  Talbois,  whose 
ancestry  was  equally  as  illustrious  as  his  own,  she  being  a  lineal 
descendant  of  King  Edward  I.  of  England  by  his  first  wife, 
Princess  Eleanor  of  Castile,  daughter  of  Ferdinand  III.  of 
Castile,  by  his  second  wife  Johanna  daughter  of  Louis  VII.  of 
France,  thus  giving  her  a  long  line  of  Spanish  and  French  royal 
ancestry.  Lady  Ann  was  descended  from  two  of  the  children 
of  Edward  I.  of  England,  namely,  Edward  II.  and  his  sister, 
Joan  de  Acre,  who  married  Gilbert,  "the  Red"  Earl  of  Clare, 
who  was  the  seventh  Earl  of  Hertford  and  the  third  Earl  of 
Gloucester.  She  was  descended  from  fourteen  generations  of 
Percy  ancestors,  the  Earls  of  Northumberland,  one  of  the  greatest 
among  the  great  baronial  families  of  England.  A  warlike  race, 
brave  and  loyal,  though  hot  of  temper,  and  ever  to  the  forefront 
in  contests  of  their  time.  The  Percy  was  to  England  what  the 
Douglas  was  to  Scotland.  One  of  these  Percy  ancestors  was 
the  famous  Sir  Henry  Percy,  the  "Hotspur"  of  history,  of  whom 
it  was  said  that  "no  other  was  ever  more  bold  or  brave" ;  when 
Henry  IV.  made  unjust  demands  of  him  for  certain  prisoners 
in  his  charge,  Shakespeare  thus  voices  his  reply: 

"An',  if  the  devil  came  and  roar  for  them, 
I  will  not  send  them ;  I  will  after  straight 
And  tell  him  so ;  for  I  will  ease  my  heart 
Albeit  I  make  a  hazard  of  my  head." 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  33 

Which  he  did,  for  he  was  slain  in  the  battle  of  Shrewsbury, 
and  Henry  IV.  ordered  that  he  be  decapitated  on  the  field  "so 
that  all  men  might  see  that  he  was  dead." 

The  office  of  the  King's  Champion  was  in  its  very  essence  one  of 
romance  and  chivalry,  and  its  influence  is  shown  in  some  of 
England's  most  delightful  literature.  In  Ivanhoe  there  are  a 
number  of  references  to  the  knightly  service  of  the  champion; 
in  Redgauntlet  the  champion  appears  in  person,  and  in  Marmion 
Lord  Robert  was  to  some  extent  the  original  of  the  picture  drawn, 
and  Tamworth  Castle,  his  home,  is  frequently  mentioned. 

Scrivelsby  Manor  is  one  of  the  most  unique  establishments  in 
England,  situated  in  an  extensive  park,  in  one  of  the  most  beautiful 
sections  of  Lincolnshire.  The  entrance  to  the  park  is  through 
a  great  old  gray  stone  arch  overgrown  with  ivy,  and  surmounted 
by  the  life-size  figure  of  a  lion,  standing  out  in  bold  relief  against 
the  vivid  green  of  the  summer  foliage  or  the  soft  dull  gray  of 
a  winter  sky.  The  lion  is  one  of  the  crests  of  the  Dymokes,  and 
their  arms  show  two  lions  passant  upon  a  field  of  black,  and  the 
motto  "Pro  Rege  Dimico." 

This  quaint  old  manor  of  Scrivelsby  has  been  immortalized  by 
Lord  Tennyson  in  his  Locksley  Hall  Sixty  Years  After,  and  Lady 
Clare  de  Vere.  Somersby,  the  childhood  home  of  Tennyson,  is 
but  seven  miles  from  Scrivelsby,  and  it  has  been  said  that  the 
"stately  park  of  the  latter,  with  its  wide  stretching  woods  and 
meadows,  was  frequently  the  chosen  scene  of  his  rambles,"  and 
many  times  must  he  have  passed  through  the  great  Lion  Gateway : 

"Here  is  Locksley  Hall,  my  grandson, 
here  the  Lion-guarded  gate. 

There  is  one  old  Hostel  left  us  when 

they  swing  the  Locksley  shield. 
Till  the  peasant  cow  shall  butt  the  Lion 

passant  from  the  field." 

There  is  the  life-sized  figure  of  a  cow  in  the  park  at  Scrivelsby. 

The  Dymokes  were  also  descended  from  Robert  de  Vere,  Earl 
of  Oxford,  and  were  very  proud  of  their  many  coats  of  arms 
and  Norman  blood. 


34  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

In  Lady  Clare  Vere  de  Vere,  the  poet  says : 

"Nor  would  I  brake  for  your  sweet  sake, 

A  heart  that  dotes  on  truer  charms, 
A  simple  maiden  in  her  flower 

Is  worth  an  hundred  coats-of-arms. 

You  sought  to  prove  how  I  could  love, 
And  my  disdain  is  your  reply. 

The  lion?  on  your  old  stone  gates, 
Is  not  more  cold  to  you  than  I. 


Many  curious  ballads  have  been  written  on  the  subject  of  the 
Champion,  one  of  which  is  as  follows : 

"The  Norman  Barons  Marmyan 

At  Norman-Court  held  high  degree; 
Brave  Knights  and  Champions,  every  one, 
To  him  who  won  brave  Scrivelsby. 

"The  Lincoln  lands  the  Conqueror  gave, 

That  England's  glove  they  should  convey, 
To  knight  renowned  among  the  brave, 
The  Baron  bold  of  Fontenaye. 

"The  royal  grant  from  sire  to  son, 

Devolved  direct  in  capite, 
Until  deceased  Phil  Marmyon, 

When  rose  fair  Joan  of  Scrivelsby. 

"And  ever  since  when  England's  kings 
Are  diademed — no  matter  where — 
The  Champion  Dymoke  boldly  flings 

His  glove,  should  treason  venture  there. 

"Then  bravely  cry  with  Dymoke  bold 

Long  may  the  King  triumphant  reign, 
And  when  fair  hands  the  sceptre  hold, 

More  bravely  still — long  live  the  Queen." 


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35 


In  addition  to  the  descendants  of  Diana  Skipwith  Dale  through 
her  daughters,  Cartharine  Carter  and  Elizabeth  Rogers,  the 
Dymoke  blood  is  represented  in  Virginia  through  the  descendants 
of  Col.  George  Reade,  who  was  the  grandson  of  Sir  Thomas 
Windebanke  and  wife,  Frances  Dymoke. 

Colonel  Reade  was  Secretary  of  Virginia,  acting  Governor  in 
1638,  etc.;  from  him  are  descended  the  Nelsons,  Warners,  Wash- 
ingtons,  Lewises  and  other  well  known  Virginia  families. 

For  the  Skipwith  and  Dymoke  data  presented  here,  I  am,  in 
addition  to  what  I  have  from  various  English  works  on  genealogy, 
indebted  to  Mrs.  Sally  Nelson  Robins  and  Mrs.  Robert  G.  Hogan 
for  much  of  it. 


Descendants   of   Edward  Carter,  Eldest  Son 
of  Thomas  and  Catharine  Carter 


Carters,  Knights,  Bacons,  Tuggles,  O'Ferralls,  Friends,  Landis, 
Stokes,  Wingos,  Cummins,  Gibsons,  Whites,  Prestons,  Dil- 
liards  and  others  of  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  Kentucky,  Ten- 
nessee and  other  States. 


Descendants  of  Edward  Carter 

Edward  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Katharine 
Dale  Carter  born  April  9,  1671,  died  in  1743,  intestate.  Son 
Thomas  administrator.  Inventory  mentions  only  furniture  for 
room  and  a  parcel  of  books.  He  probably  divided  his  estate  before 
he  died  and  lived  with  his  son.  In  1694  he  was  an  executor 
of  his  grandfather  Dale ;  appeared  in  tax  list  for  1696  wTien  he 
paid  for  two  persons.  June  24.  1703.  "Edward  Carter  of  ye 
p'sh  of  Christ  Church,  in  ye  county  of  Lancaster,  Gent."  gave 
an  indemnifying  bond  of  £500  sterling  to  brothers  Thomas.  Henry 
and  John  guaranteeing  title  of  land  left  them  by  their  father, 
"Thomas  Carter  late  of  this  County  Gent.,  dec'd."  March  2, 
1716,  "Edward  Carter  of  Christ  Church  psh  gent"  and  wife  Eliza- 
beth sold  land  to  John  Rhodes.  August  10,  1719,  a  negro  boy, 
son  of  a  free  negro  woman,  was  bound  to  "Mr.  Edward  Carter" 
until  he  was  of  age,  who,  in  addition  to  suitable  maintenance  in 
his  service,  was  "to  cause  him  to  be  taught  to  read  and  write."  In 
1721  he  witnessed  the  will  of  brother  Peter,  and  in  1733  that  of 
brother  Henry.  Xo  other  mention  of  him  in  the  Lancaster 
records. 

The  Carter  Prayer  Book  shows  the  following : 

"Edward  Carter  of  ye  cotr  of  Lancster  &  Elizh  Thornton  Dau : 

to  Mr.  YVm.  Thornton  of  ye  Coty  of  Gloucstr  was  mard  3d  June 

1697.  It  being  a  Thursday." 
This  was  probably  Elizabeth  Thornton,  daughter  of  William 

Thornton,  Jr..  of  Petsworth  parish,  Gloucester,  born  August  26, 

1672. 

Thornton  Excursus. 

Win.  Thornton.  Jr..  born  Mar.  27,  1649,  died  Feb-  15,  1727.  was  a  ves- 
tryman of  Petsworth,  Gloucester  County,  and  owned  a  good  deal  of  land 
in  that  parish.  He  was  married  three  times,  but  his  Bible  while  giving 
the  date  of  his  marriages  and  the  names  and  dates  of  birth  of  his  fifteen 
children  does  not  give  names  of  his  wives.  Elizabeth  Thornton  Carter 
being  the  eldest  child,  as  his  first  marriage  took  place  Aug.  24.  1671. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE   CARTER  FAMILY  39 

Wm.  Thornton,  Sr.,  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  emigrant  ancestor  of 
this  the  largest  and  most  prominent  family  of  this  name  in  Virginia.  He 
is  supposed  to  have  come  from  Yorkshire,  and  appears  first  in  York  Co., 
Va.,  records  May  n,  1646.  He  settled  in  Petsworth  parish,  Gloucester, 
and  was  a  vestryman  in  1677.  He  had  several  grants  of  land  in  Glou- 
cester and  other  counties  along  the  Rappahannock,  and  in  his  old  age 
removed  to  Stacord  County,  where  he  died  after  1708.  He  had  sons,  Wil- 
liam, who  remained  in  Gloucester,  and  Francis  and  Rowland,  who  removed 
to  the  Rappahannock  lands  in  Richmond  and  Essex  Counties.  They  were 
men  of  wealth  and  social  prominence,  and  have  many  distinguished  de- 
scendants, who  have  intermarried  with  the  Pressleys,  Fitzhughs,  Gregorys, 
Washingtons,  and  other  well-known  families ;  and  have  left  behind  them 
several  fine  old  homes,  which  in  their  day  have  been  noted  for  elegant  cul- 
ture and  lavish  hospitality.  See  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vols.  III., 
IV.,  V.,  and  VI. 

Edward  and  Elizabeth  Thornton  Carter  had  issue  as  follows : 
Margaret,  born  June  1,  1698;  Katharine  and  Thomas  (twins), 
February  1,  1699/1700 — really  1700;  Judith,  June  22,  1702;  all  in 
"Gloucester  att  Mr.  Wm.  Thorntons."  Edward,  August,  1704; 
Elizabeth,  May  8,  1706;  "in  Lancaster  to  this  time.''  There 
may  have  been  others  born  subsequently  and  not  recorded  in  the 
old  Prayer  Book. 

Thomas  Carter  of  Lancaster. 

It  is  through  his  eldest  son,  Thomas  Carter,  born  February  1, 
1700,  died  December  3,  1776,  that  the  descendants  of  Edward 
Carter  are  traced  down  to  the  present  time.  He  probably  owned 
his  father's  home-place  on  Corotoman  River,  as  his  home  adjoined 
those  of  Dale  Carter,  his  cousin,  and  of  Col.  James  Gordon,  in 
whose  interesting  diary,  Thomas  Carter  is  mentioned  as  follows : 

1795- 

"Jan.  6.  I  went  with  Capt.  Fouchee  to  Thomas  Carter's  to  see 
about  his  son's  board.    Rained  all  day." 

"Jan.  9.  Received  a  letter  from  Col.  Conway  and  one  to 
Nancy  upon  religion,  but  in  my  opinion  very  little  to  the  purpose. 
Thomas  Carter  ree'd  one  which  displeased  him  very  much.     Col. 


40        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Conway  seems  so  great  a  bigot  that  people  who  are  religiously 
inclined  dispise  his  advice.'' 

"Aug.  10.  Went  to  Col.  Conway's  in  order  to  make  friends 
with  him  about  the  letters  he  has  lately  rec'd  from  Thomas  Carter, 
or  in  his  name — which  I  performed  with  much  difficulty.  The 
old  gentleman  was  in  a  great  rage  at  first." 

"Oct.  22.  Col.  Conway  has  begun  to  write  to  Thomas  Carter, 
which  surprises  us  all,  after  his  promise  to  have  done  with  such 
writings." 

"Nov.  30.     Thomas  Carter  here  and  several  of  the  neighbors." 

1761. 

"Aug.  10.  I  went  for  some  of  the  neighbors,  viz:  Dale  and 
Thomas  Carter,  John  Mitchell,  etc.,"  about  getting  a  new  minister. 

"Dec.  26.  Sent  for  several  of  the  neighbors  to  dine  with  us — 
Col.  Taloe,  Mr.  Dale  Carter,  Thomas  Carter  and  many  of  the 
girls  of  the  neighborhood.    All  very  agreable." 

1762. 

"April  29.  We  went  to  Mr.  Thomas  Carter's  to  Mrs.  Whale's 
funeral,  where  Mr.  Waddel  preached  an  excellent  sermon  to  a 
large  number  of  people,  who  seemed  well  pleased." 

Note. — Mrs.  Whale  was  probably  the  mother  of  Thomas 
Carter's  second  wife,  who  was  Anne  Wale,  before  her  first 
marriage. 

1763. 

"Feb.  13.  Mr.  Waddel  proposed  ten  persons  for  elders — Col. 
Selden,  Dr.  Robertson,  Mr.  Chichester,  Dr.  Watson,  Mr.  Thomas 
Carter,  Mr.  Dale  Carter,  Mr.  John  Mitchell,  Mr.  Belvard,  Mr. 
Wright  and  myself." 

"Aug.  14.  Told  Mr.  Criswell  that  his  difference  with  Mr. 
W.  has  made  it  disagreeable  at  his  boarding  longer  at  our  house, 
so  he  and  his  wife  went  to  Thomas  Carter's." 

Note. — Mr.  Criswell  was  the  minister  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
and  Mr.  Waddel  was  the  famous  Presbyterian  minister  of  that 
day. 


Some  Colonial  Virginia  Churches 
where   the   Carters   were   communicants,   vestrymen,   and   church   wardens. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  41 

"Aug.  23.  After  dinner  went  with  Mr.  Chichester  to  the  meet- 
ing house  to  meet  Mr.  Waddell  and  Mr.  Criswell,  who  appointed 
this  day  to  talk  over  their  differences  before  Mr.  Thomas  Carter 
and  Col.  Selden.  After  much  debate  they  agreed  to  be  friends." 

"Sept.  13.  This  day  our  son  Nathaniel  was  baptized  by  Mr. 
Wadell.  No  company  but  Mr.  Chichester  and  Nancy,  Molly  Chi- 
chester with  Mr.  Carter  and  their  girls." 

In  1745  and  '46  Thomas  Carter  was  a  member  of  the  vestry 
of  Christ  Church  as  shown -by  the  old  vestry  book.  He  seems 
later  to  have  gone  to  the  Presbyterians  as  in  1763  his  name  was 
one  of  ten  proposed  as  elders  in  that  church.  In  1747  and  1752 
his  name  appears  in  a  poll  of  freeholders  of  Lancaster,  when 
he  voted  for  Col.  Edwin  Conway  and  Capt.  Wm.  Tayloe  for 
burgesses. 

Thomas  Carter  was  married  twice,  but  the  date  of  the  first 
marriage  and  the  name  of  his  wife  have  not  been  preserved. 
The  second  marriage  took  place  Jan.  15,  1750,  to  Mrs.  Anne 
Hunton,  nee  Wale,  widow  of  Thomas  Hunton,  whom  she  had 
married  on  Nov.  15,  1737,  and  by  whom  she  had  at  least  one 
daughter,  Anne  Hunton,  who  was  mentioned  in  Thomas  Car- 
ter's will. 

Thomas  Carter  had  issue  by  his  first  wife  six  sons  and  six 
daughters : 

1.  Edward  Carter,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1781. 

2.  John  Carter,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1782. 

3.  George  Carter,  died  in  Halifax  about  i785-'86. 

4.  Thomas  Carter,  living  in  Lancaster  in  1785. 

5.  James  Carter,  probably  a  cripple,  as  he  was  left  to  the  care 
of  his  brother  Edward  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

6.  Raleigh  Carter,  youngest  son,  died  in  Nottoway  between 
1815  and   1820. 

7.  Sarah  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  McTyre  prior  to  1776. 

8.  Alice  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Griggs  prior  to  1776. 

9.  Judith  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Chilton  prior  to  1776. 

10.  Mary  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Chilton  prior  to  1776. 

11.  Lucy  Carter,  married  John  Smithers,  Nov.  11,  1761,  died 
prior  to   1776. 


42        GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

12.  Millicent  Carter,  married  Rev.  Chas.  Cummings  Feb.  13, 
1766. 

Dec.  1,  1776,  '"Thomas  Carter  of  Christ  Church  Parish,  Lan- 
caster, Gent./'  made  his  will,  which  was  probated  on  the  19th ; 
he  died  Dec.  3rd.  He  disposed  of  his  estate  as  follows :  To  son 
John,  negroes  Mima  and  Winny ;  son  Edward  to  have  his  lower 
plantation  and  negro  Frank ;  son  Thomas,  all  that  he  had  paid 
on  a  hundred  acres  of  land,  half  his  wearing  apparel  and  son 
Thomas  Carter's  son  Edward  a  negro  woman  named  Sue ;  son 
George  to  have  negro  woman  Siller,  and  his  book  called  "Becket 
on  the  New  Testament" ;  son  James  to  have  negro  men  named 
Mark  and  Mingo  to  maintain  him  during  his  natural  life — and 
he  was  to  be  under  the  care  of  his  brother  Edward  Carter,  who 
was  to  have  the  two  negroes  if  James  lived  fifteen  years  longer; 
son  Rawleigh  to  have  his  upper  plantation  and  a  negro  woman ; 
daughter  Millicent  Cummings  to  have  the  three  negroes  he 
had  already  given  her,  Which  was  all  he  intended  for  her ;  daugh- 
ter Sarah  McTire  to  have  an  equal  share  in  his  residuary  estate 
as  he  had  already  given  her  a  negro  divided  in  the  estate  of  her 
first  husband,  Robert  Henning,  Jr. ;  daughter  Alice  Griggs  to 
have  two  negroes,  horse  "Jewell"  and  her  side  saddle;  daughter 
Judith  Chilton  a  negro  woman;  to  daughter  Mary  Chilton's 
son  Charles  Chilton  £40,  he  having  already  given  her  son  Thomas 
Chilton  a  like  sum;  daughter-in-law  (step-daughter)  Anne  Hun- 
ton,  a  negro  girl,  a  side  saddle,  the  least  great  Bible,  a  new 
table  "cloath,"  second  best  bed  and  furniture,  the  old  desk,  and 
a  loom  and  weaving  gear;  cousin  Dale  Carter  five  pounds  for  a 
mourning  ring.  All  children  except  Millicent  Cummings  to 
share  in  the  residuary  estate.  Sons  Edward  and  Raleigh  to  be 
executors. 


Descendants  of  Edward  Carter  of 
Lancaster 

i.  Edward  Carter  (Thos.3,  Edw.2,  Thos.1)  had  license  Jan. 
4,  175 1,  to  marry  Mrs.  Catharine  Brent,  nee  Martin,  widow  of 
James  Brent,  whom  she  married  July  27,  1727.  She  had  Brent 
daughters,  Eleanor  married  Wm.  Stamps  Nov.  15,  1750,  and 
Catharine,  married  Chas.  Rodgers,  Mar.  20,  1762,  with  consent 
of  her  stepfather  Edward  Carter. 

In  1752  and  1753  Edward  Carter  was  one  of  the  "proces- 
sioners''  of  the  lands  in  Christ  Church  parish,  and  in  1771 
served  with  Colonel  James  Ball  and  James  Brent  as  proces- 
sioners. 

The  will  of  Edward  Carter,  "Gent."  of  Christ  Church  parish, 
Lancaster,  dated  April  1,  1783,  proh.  March  18,  1784,  wife, 
Cathharine,  and  son,  Edward,  executors,  divided  his  estate  as 
follows :  Wife,  Catharine,  to  have  home  plantation,  six  negroes 
and  a  third  of  other  personalty ;  after  her  death  to  son,  Edward ; 
daughter,  Hannah  Hunton,  and  husband.  John  Hunton,  six 
negroes ;  granddaughters,  Mary  and  Catharine  Kirke,  each  a 
negro;  son,  Martin.  £1.150  of  lawful  gold  and  silver  money  due 
by  bond  from  Colonel  James  Gordon,  "to  purchase  my  son  a 
plantation."  Remainder  of  negroes  and  real  estate  equally  to 
sons,  Edward  and  Martin.  His  personal  estate  amounted  to 
£  1 236.2s. 2d.  and  included  in  the  way  of  books,  a  large  Bible 
at  £i.ios.,  two  dictionaries,  a  Latin  dictionary  and  a  parcel  of 
old  books. 

The  granddaughters,  Mary  and  Catharine  Kirke,  were  the 
children  of  Lucy  Carter,  who  married  May  19,  1768,  James 
Kirke,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Carter  Kirk ;  there  was  also  a 
son,  James  Kirk,  Jr.,  who  was  under  the  guardianship  of  his 
grandmother,  Catharine  Carter,  in  1783.  Mary  Kirk  married 
William  Digges,  September  it,  1788,  and  Catharine  Kirke 
married    Charles    Brent    in    December,    1791.      Mrs    Catharine 


44  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Carter's  will  was  probated  July  21,  1788.  She  left  son,  Martin, 
her  riding  chair,  horse  and  some  other  personal  property ; 
daughter,  Hanna  Hunton,  a  negro ;  granddaughters,  certain  per- 
sonality, and  rest  of  estate  to  son,  Edward.  Edward  Carter,  Jr., 
may  have  been  the  Edward  Carter  who  married  Sally  White, 
February  16,  1786.     No  other  data  of  this  branch  of  the  family. 


Descendants  of  John  Carter  of 
Lancaster 

2.  John  Carter  (Thos.3,  Edward2,  Thos.1)  owned  a  good 
plantation  of  about  four  hundred  acres  near  Corotoman  River, 
in  Christ  Church  parish.  In  my  incomplete  genealogy  of  the 
Carters,  published  in  the  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  I 
gave  this  John  Carter  as  the  son  of  Daniel  (died  1759)  and 
grandson  of  Captain  Thomas,  Jr.,  but  the  Carter  Mss.,  1858, 
shows  that  I  was  mistaken  and  he  was  a  son  of  Edward  Carter. 
The  Carter  Mss.  says  of  him:  "John  was  married  twice.  First 
to  a  Miss  Spencer,  daughter  of  Edward  Spencer,  of  Richmond 
county,  and  lastly  to  a  widow  Pollard,  who  bore  him  no  children. 
By  the  first  wife  he  had  Spencer,  Thomas  and  Lucy,  who  married 
Tapscott  Oliver,  of  Northumberland  county,  and  has  grand- 
children living  there  now.  Tom  went  to  Culpeper  and  married 
a  Miss  Gaines  and  had  a  big  family.  Spencer  I  remember  very 
well.  He  married  a  Miss  Hayney  and  had  sons,  Spencer,  John, 
Rawley  and  Hayney,  about  my  age,  and  daughters,  Lucy  and 
Winny.  I  was  at  the  infair  at  his  second  wedding  when  he  mar- 
ried the  widow  of  George  Conway." 

Spencer  Excursus. 

There  was  a  very  prominent  family  of  Spencer  in  the  Northern  Neck, 
which  was  connected  with  the  well-known  families  of  Ball,  Roane,  and 
other  F.  F.  V.'s  of  that  part  of  Virginia.  This  family  sprung  from  Nich- 
olas Spencer  of  Westmoreland,  a  member  of  an  ancient  Bedfordshire 
family,  and  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  last  half  of  the  17th  cen- 
tury in  Vrginia.  See  Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  Vols.  II.  and  IV.,  and 
William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vols.  VI.  and  XVII. 

So  far  as  is  known  there  is  nothing  that  will  connect  Edward  Spencer 
of  Richmond  County  with  Col.  Nicholas,  except  that  they  lived  in  the 
same  section  of  the  country,  and  that  Col.  Nicolas  had  descendants  of 
whom  we  have  no  data.  Little  is  known  of  Edward  Spencer.  In  1718 
Stanley  Gower  of  Richmond  County  mentioned  him  as  his  "son-in-law" 
in  his  will ;  but  from  the  wording,  and  from  the  custom  of  that  day,  it  is 


46       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

thught  that  Spencer  was  a  step-son  of  Gower  and  not  his  son-inJaw  as 
we  now  use  the  word.  The  old  Farnham  register  says  that  Edward,  son 
of  Edward  and  Winifred  Spencer  was  born  Nov.  20,  1710.  It  may  give 
other  Spencer  data,  but  I  did  not  know  of  this  Carter- Spencer  connec- 
tion when  I  examined  the  old  register  at  the  courthouse.  The  published 
extracts  from  the  register  and  the  county  records  show  that  the  Gowers 
were  people  of  means  and  intermarried  with  well-known  Richmond  County 
families.  It  is  probable  that  John  Carter's  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Edward 
Spencer,  Jr.,  as  they  were  married  in  1749,  when  Edwardj  Jr.,  was  39 
j  ears  old.  and  that  was  a  day  of  early  marriages. 

A  deed  in  1757  shows  that  John  Carter's  second  wife  was 
Mary,  the  "widow  of  Mr.  Thomas  Pollard."  In  her  will,  dated 
February  10,  1792,  she  left  all  her  property  to  her  sons  and 
daughters,  Thomas  and  James  Pollard,  and  Mrs.  Mary  Pollard 
James,  children  of  her  first  husband. 

March  25,  1783,  the  personal  estate  of  John  Carter,  deceased, 
was  appraised  and  divided  between  his  widow,  Mary  Carter, 
and  sons,  Spencer  and  Thomas,  and  daughter,  Lucy,  wife  of 
Tapscott  Oliver.  It  amounted  to  f237.6s.6d.  and  included  a 
good  lot  of  furniture  contained  in  the  following  rooms:  "The 
hall,  chamber,  upstairs,  the  red  room,  the  kitchen  and  cellar." 
It  mentions  a  china  punch  bowl,  a  Delf  punch  bowl,  a  great 
Bible,  two  sermon  books,  a  hymn  book  and  a  parcel  of  old  books — 
rather  a  close  mixture  of  punch  and  religion.  The  negroes 
were:  Mima,  Winney  (these  came  to  John  Carter  from  his 
father,  Thomas  Carter,  and  are  named  in  the  latter's  will), 
Mildred,  Lucy  and  Jonathon.  John  Carter  had  given  each  of 
his  three  children  two  negroes  four  or  five  years  earlier,  probably 
negroes  that  had  come  to  him  in  the  estate  of  his  first  wife. 
John  Carter  and  his  first  wife,  Miss  Spencer,  had  issue: 

13.  Spencer   Carter,   born    1750,   died   after    1800. 

14.  Thomas  Carter,  born  1752,  died  in  1 813-17. 

15.  Lucy  Carter,  born  1754,  married  circa  1775  Tapscott 
Oliver,  of  Northumberland  county,  and  had  three  children  in 
1783.  The  Tapscotts  and  Olivers  were  well  connected  families 
and  people  of  means ;  several  families  of  the  Tapscotts  in  Lan- 
caster owned  large  plantations  and  from  nine  to  thirty-two 
servants    each. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  47 

13.  Spencer  Carter,  born  in  1750  (Hayden),  married  circa 
1775-76  a  Miss  Hayney,  and  in  1782  was  living  in  Westmore- 
land county,  where  he  appeared  in  a  list  of  slave  owners  a.s 
possessed  of  three  servants.  After  the  death  of  his  father  he 
purchased  the  home  plantation  in  Lancaster  from  the  other 
heirs,  and  was  living  there  in  1785,  the  head  of  a  family  of 
seven.  According  to  the  Carter  Mss.  he  had  issue  by  this  mar- 
riage sons,  Spencer,  Jr.,  John,  Raleigh  and  Haynie,  and  daughters 
Lucy  and  Winifred. 

December  29,  1792,  Spencer  Carter  was  married  to  Mrs.  Anne 
Conway,  born  September  20,  1748,  widow  of  George  Conway, 
and  daughter  of  Travers  Downman  and  his  wife,  Grace  Ball, 
daughter  of  Captain  George  and  Grace  Waddy  Ball,  of  Wi- 
comico, Northumberland  county.  Captain  George  Ball  was  a 
son  of  Captain  Wm.  Ball,  Jr.,  and  grandson  of  Captain  Wm. 
Ball,  the  emigrant  to  Lancaster.  See  Hoyden's  Virginia  Genea- 
logies. She  had  a  daughter,  Grace  Conway,  who  married  John 
Carter,  son  of  Henry  Carter.  Spencer  and  Anne  Downman  Carter 
probably  had  no  issue. 

No  further  record  of  Spencer  Carter's  descendants. 

14.  Thomas  Carter,  born  1754,  in  Lancaster,  died  in  1813 
in  Culpeper,  wrhere  he  married  circa  1776-77,  Sussannah,  daughter 
of  Francis  and  Dorothy  Gaines. 

Gaines  Excursus. 

The  Gaines  family  is  one  of  the  earliest  in  Virginia,  and  prior  to 
the  Revolution  was  scattered  in  several  Tidewater  and  Piedmont  counties, 
where  they  were  people  of  means  and  good  connections.  The  necessary 
data  for  a  connected  sketch  of  them  is  not  at  hand. 

There  settled  in  Accomac  County.  James  Gaines  in  1620,  and  Edward 
Gaines,  aged  30?  in  1634.  Doubtless  they  were  the  ancestors  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Gaines  family.  In  1658.  '61  and  '63.  Daniel,  Robert,  Thomas,  and 
James  Gaines  had  large  grants  of  land  in  Rappahannock  County.  They 
may  have  been  brothers  and  sons  of  one  of  the  Accomac  settlers- 

The  family  of  interest  here  seems  to  have  come  from  a  Gloucester 
County  branch.  The  Abingdon  register  gives  the  following:  Francis 
(later  of  Culpeper),  son  of  Francis  and  Sarah  Gaines,  baptied  Feb.  9, 
1728;  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Sarah,  born  May  28,  1731; 
Mar}',  born  Aug.  19.  1733;  Sarah,  wife  of  Mr.  Francis  Gaines,  was  buried 
Oct.  ye  13,  1736.     John  Perrins,  son  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Gaines,  died  Mar.  14, 


48        GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

*733-  This  shows  that  Mrs.  Gaines  had  married  first  a  Mr.  Perrins. 
After  the  death  of  his  wife  Sarah,  Francis  Gaines,  Sr.,  married  again  and 
removed  to  King  and  Queen  County,  where  he  died  in  1774,  leaving  wife 
Betty  and  the  following  children :  Francis,  Jr.,  of  Culpeper ;  Elizabeth ; 
Mary  married  a  Mr.  Spencer;  Catharine  married  Chas.  Collier;  Hannah,* 
Anne;  Patty;  Thomas;  Henry.  The  latter  was  a  major  in  the  militia, 
and  left  sons  Harry  of  "Providence,"  Wm.  F.  of  "Greenway"  (in  King 
William),  and  Robert  of  "White  House,"  all  of  whom  have  prominent 
descendants  in  King  and  Queen  and  King  William  Counties. 

Francis  Gaines  (Jr.)  of  St.  Mark's  parish,  Culpeper,  made  his  will 
Sept.  25,  1775,  prob.  July  15,  1776.  Left  land  and  personal  estate,  in- 
cluding 12  negroes,  to  amount  1208.  7s.  gd.  to  wife  Dorothy  for  the  rest 
of  her  life,  after  which  son  James  was  to  have  the  real  estate,  and  the 
rest  of  the  property  to  all  children :  James,  Lucy,  Sally,  Betty,  Dorothy, 
Anne,  and  Susannah  Gaines.  Daughters  to  each  have  a  horse  and  saddle 
after  his  death.  32  to  Isabella,  daughter  of  nephew  Henry  Gaines.  She 
was  probably  the  daughter  of  Wm.  Henry  Gaines  who  married  Isabella 
Pendleton,  sister  of  the  great  jurist,  Edmund  Pendleton.  The  will  of 
Mrs.  Dorothy  Gaines,  prob.  June  19,  1786,  divided  her  personal  property 
between  her  daughters  Susannah  Carter,  Anne  Martin,  and  Dorothy  and 
Betty  Gaines,  and  granddaughter  Elizabeth  Carter.  Desired  that  her  son- 
in-law,  Thomas  Carter,  continue  in  the  management  of  her  plantation  and 
negroes  until  the  end  of  the  year. 

See  Greene's  Hist,  of  Culpeper,  Bagby's  Hist,  of  King  and  Queen, 
Abingdon  Register,  and  Culpeper  records. 

Thomas  Carter  owned  237  acres  of  land  that  he  probably  pur- 
chased when  he  settled  in  Culpeper,  which  he  sold  August  8, 
1807,  to  Wm.  Gore.  March  30,  1797,  he  purchased  a  402-acre 
plantation  from  Jos.  Strother  for  £1500. 

An  old  index  volume  shows  that  Thomas  Carter's  will  was 
recorded  in  a  will  book  (now  missing)  for  the  period  of  1813-17. 
A  summing  up  of  his  personal  estate  in  June,  1817,  shows  that 
it  amounted  to  $2,687.50,  and  among  other  things  mentioned  a 
silver  watch,  a  parcel  of  silver  buckles,  books,  pair  of  money 
scales,  etc.  The  will  of  Mrs.  Susannah  Carter,  pfrob.  June 
19,  1820,  divided  her  property  between  her  seven  sons:  Thomas 
Spencer,  James  S.,  William,  Landon,  Abner,  Robert  P.  and 
Joseph.  She  does  not  mention  her  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who 
married  Abiah  Guinn,  January  2,  1806. 

Thomas  Carter  is  said  to  have  served  in  the  Revolution,  and 


GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  49 

the  records  show  the  service  of  several  Thomas  Carters  from 
Virginia,  one  of  whom  may  have  been  Thomas,  of  Culpeper. 
Thomas  and  Susannah  Gaines  Carter  had  issue: 

16.  Thomas  Spencefr  Carter,  born  circa  1778,  removed  to 
Franklin  county,  Ky. 

17.  James  S.  (Stephen?)  Carter,  born  circa  1780,  living  in 
Culpeper  in   1832. 

18.  William  Carter,  born  in  March,  1782,  died  in  1837  in 
Bedford    county,    Tenn. 

19.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  circa  1784,  married  Abiah  Guin. 
January  2,  1806. 

20.  Landon  Carter,  born  circa  1786,  living  in  Culpeper  in  18 17. 

21.  Abner  Carter,  born  circa  1788,  living  in  Loudoun  county  in 
1832. 

22.  Robert  P.  (Pollard?)  Carter,  born  circa  1790,  in  Cul- 
peper in  1823. 

23.  Joseph  Carter,  born  in  1792,  died  in  January,  1856,  in 
Oldham  county,  Ky. 

16.  Thomas  Spencer  Carter,  married  January  3,  1803,  Mar- 
garet Anne,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Susan  Green,  of  Culpeper 
county.  February  7,  1824,  Thos.  S.  and  Margaret  Anne  Carter, 
of  Boone  county,  Ky.,  sold  to  brother,  James  S.  Carter,  of  Cul- 
peper county,  Va.,  half  of  the  tract  of  185  acres  in  Culpeper 
left  to  the  said  Thomas  and  James  by  their  father,  Thomas 
Carter.  December  3,  1828,  Thos.  S.  Carter,  of  Franklin  county. 
Ky.,  appointed  his  son,  Isaac  Green  Carter,  as  his  attorney  to 
collect  all  debts  owing  to  him  in  Virginia.  January  13,  1859, 
James  W.  Carter  and  wife,  Nancy,  and  Alfred  M.  Spicer  and 
wife,  Jane,  of  Franklin  county,  Ky. — the  said  Nancy  Carter 
and  Jane  Spicer  being  daughters  of  Thomas  S.  and  Margaret 
Carter,  now  both  dead,  and  the  said  Margaret  Carter  being  a 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Susan  Green,  dec'd,  late  of  Culpeper 
county,  Va. — appointed  Robert  Martin,  of  Grant  county,  Ky., 
their  attorney  to  recover  their  share  of  the  Green  estate  in 
Virginia.  Their  descendants  doubtless  are  now  living  in  Frank- 
lin county,  Ky. 


50       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

17.  James  S.  Carter,  and  wife,  Susan,  sold  to  D.  John  Bailes, 
on  September  10,  1821,  land  left  James  S.  Carter  by  his  father, 
Thomas  Carter.  April  16,  1832,  James  Carter,  of  Culpeper, 
purchased  from  Abner  Carter,  of  Loudon  county,  a  house  and 
lot  in  the  village  of  Flint  Hill,  Culpeper  county.  No  other  data 
of  James  Carter  or  his  descendants. 

18.  William  Carter,  born  in  March,  1782,  was  married  in 
Culpeper  county,  Ya.,  September  13,  1813,  to  Keziah  Tanne- 
hill,  daughter  of  Martha  Tannehill,  whose  will  was  probated 
March  19,  1821,  and  mentions  sons,  William  and  George,  and 
daughters,  Nancy,  Keziah,  wife  of  Wm.  Carter;  Elizabeth,  wife 
of  Lewis  Moore,  Mariann,  wife  of  Baker,  and  a  daughter,  the 
wife  of  Anson  Dearing. 

Keziath  T.  Carter  was  born  in  September  1792,  and  she  and 
her  husband,  Wm.  Carter,  lost  their  lives  when  their  residence 
in  Bedford  county,  Tenn.,  was  burned  in   1837. 

September  8,  18 17,  William  and  Keziah  Carter,  of  Culpeper, 
sold  to  Richard  Jackson  for  $3,500,  half  of  a  tract  of  256  acres 
of  land  left  to  William  Carter  by  his  father,  Thomas  Carter. 
October  18,  1826,  they  made  a  deed  to  Susannah  Carter  for 
half  of  a  lot  in  the  town  of  Washington,  Culpeper  county, 
and  probably  about  this  time  removed  from  the  county. 

They  lived  for  a  year  or  two  in  Halifax  county,  Va.,  and  then 
removed  to  Bedford  county,  Tenn.,  where  they  died.  The  records 
of  this  county  were  also  destroyed  by  fire,  so  that  no  data 
can  be  found  of  them. 

A  grandson  of  William  and  Keziah  Carter,  Mr.  Abb  Landis, 
of  Nashville,  says  they  had  issue  eight  children,  as  follows: 
James,  Charles,  John,  Martha,  Susan,  Mary,  Sarah  and  Naiicx, 
Mr.  Landis'  mother. 

Nancy  Carter,  born  in  March  1827,  died  February  5,  1901  ; 
married  on  June  27,  1843,  Absalom  L.  Landis,  born  August 
31,  1823,  died  June  6,  1896.    They  had  issue: 

(a)  Melissa  E.  Landis,  born  September  4,  1844,  married  J. 
M.    Shoffner,   July   24,    1862,    and    lives   at    Shelbyville,    Tenn. 

(b)  Absalom  Melville  Landis,  born  April  3,  1846,  died  infant. 


Abb   Landis,   Esq., 
Nashville.    Term. 


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(c)  Helen  Narcissa  Landis,  born  January  1,  1848,  died 
October  25,  1887,  married  September  21,  1871,  T.  P.  Green,  of 
Shelbyville,  Tenn. 

(d)  Melville  A.  Landis,  born  Dec.  12,  1849,  married  Sept.  21, 
1 87 1,  Eva  Euless. 

(c)  Solon  Lee  Landis,  born  Feb.  26,  1852,  married  Oct.  23, 
1873,  Fannie  Dunaway  and  lives  at  Hanford,  Cal. 

(/)  Abb  L.  Landis,  born  Aug.  9,  1856,  married  Aug.  18,  1880, 
Mary  Alma  Ward  and  lives  at  Nashville. 

(g)  Sallie  N.  Landis,  born  May  10,  i860,  married  May  14, 
1878,  Joseph  Biddle  and  lives  at  Hanford,  Cal. 

(h)  Leonore  Landis,  born  Nov.  10,  1863,  married  Nov.  10, 
1885,  Judge  Floyd  Estill,  of  Winchester,  Tenn. 

(»)  John  T.  Landis,  born  Aug.  4,  1866,  married  Dec.  17, 
1890,  Linnie  Boone  and  lives  in  Nashville. 

(/)  Lulan  Landis,  born  Oct.  2j,  1868,  married  in  Nov.,  1892, 
Margaret  Cullen  and  lives  in  Nashville. 

I  regret  that  Mr.  Landis  has  not  furnished  me  with  more  data 
of  his  brothers  and  sisters ;  and  also  of  his  mother's  brothers  and 
sisters  and  their  descendants.  Of  Mr.  Landis  himself  I  have  the 
following,  taken  from  an  insurance  Encyclopedia  published  at 
Hartford,  Conn. 

"Abb  Landis,  seventh  child  of  Absalom  L.  and  Nancy  Carter 
Landis,  was  born  in  Bedford  County,  Tenn.,  Aug.  9,  1856.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Nashville  in  1875,  took 
diplomas  in  special  schools  at  Vanderbilt  in  1876,  and  finished 
the  law  course  at  Cumberland  University  in  1879.  Practiced 
law  at  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  for  three  years.  He  became  editor  of 
the  Nashville  Daily  Banner  in  January,  1883.  During  1881-82 
he  was  the  owner  and  editor  of  the  Shelbyville  Gazette,  and  be- 
cause of  his  successful  conduct  of  the  Gazette,  he  was  elected  as 
editor-in-chief  of  the  Banner.  Within  six  months  he  purchased 
the  controlling  interest  in  the  latter  paper  and  assumed  personal 
supervision  of  its  business  management,  and  personally  directed 
its  editorial  policy.  From  a  losing  business  he  converted  the 
paper  into  a  profitable  enterprise,  and  the  vigor  of  his  editorials 
on  city  and  State  affairs  soon  placed  the  Banner  in  the  lead  as 


52        GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

an  influential  exponent  of  public  sentiment.  His  criticism  of 
the  policy  of  leasing  convicts  and  his  exposures  of  the  abuses 
incident  to  that  system  were  the  primary  cause  of  its  abandon- 
ment. His  attack  upon  the  system  attracted  attention  through- 
out the  country,  and  created  intense  excitement  in  Tennessee 
because  of  the  prominent  and  wealthy  citizens  who  became  in- 
volved in  the  controversy,  resulting  in  one  of  the  most  hotly  con- 
tested libel  cases  of  record  in  Tennessee  courts.  Arrayed  against 
him  was  a  powerful  corporation  employing  a  score  of  the  most 
prominent  attorneys  and  counsellors  of  the  State,  while  he  relied 
upon  a  young  lawyer  and  former  schoolmate  (now  Circuit  Judge 
T.  E.  Matthew).  His  fight  sealed  the  doom  of  the  penitentiary 
lease  system  in  Tennessee,  but  the  cost  of  the  prolonged  litiga- 
tion so  involved  him  that  he  was  compelled  to  sell  his  paper.  He 
practiced  law  with  success  in  Florida  during  1886-88,  but  con- 
tinued attacks  of  malaria  caused  him  to  seek  other  fields,  and 
becoming  interested  in  life  insurance,  he  devoted  several  years 
to  the  study  of  the  science  of  the  business.  He  was  successful 
first  as  an  agency  director  and  then  as  manager  of  the  literary 
department  of  a  large  life  insurance  company,  and  for  the  past 
fifteen  years  has  been  a  consulting  actuary  and  legal  adviser  in 
insurance  litigation.  He  has  clients  in  nearly  every  State  in  the 
Union  and  Canada,  and  is  recognized  as  authority  in  his  line  of 
work.  He  is  the  author  of  several  books,  those  of  a  technical 
character  being  accepted  as  standards  by  the  actuarial  profes- 
sion, and  those  written  in  popular  form  having  a  wide  circula- 
tion. He  returned  to  Nashville  in  1904.  His  father,  Absolom 
L.  Landis,  entered  the  Seventeenth  Tennessee  as  a  major  and 
afterward  was  quartermaster  in  general  charge  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  East  for  the  Confederate  Army  east  of  the  Missis- 
sippi. He  surrendered  with  Lee  at  Appomattox  and  returned 
to  his  devastated  plantation  in  Bedford  County  to  begin  life  anew 
with  vigor  and  determination  and  succeeded."  Abb  Lowe  Lan- 
dis, Jr.,  was  married  Aug.  18,  1880,  to  Mary  Alma  Wood,  and 
they  have  a  son  and  daughter :  Edwin  Carter  Landis,  born  June 
29,  1884,  and  Abbie  Lucile  Landis,  born  Aug.  I,  iJ 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  53 

20.  Landon  Carter,  born  circa  1786,  probably  received  his 
name  from  the  acquaintance  of  his  father  with  Landon  Carter, 
of  "Sabine  Hall,"  as  Landon  is  not  an  "inherited"  baptismal 
name  in  the  Thomas  Carter  family,  though  it  appeared  in  two 
or  three  widely  separated  branches  of  the  family  in  the  late 
eighteenth  and  early  ninteenth  centuries.  Nov.  16,  181 5,  Landon 
Carter,  of  Culpeper,  married  Polly  Lillard.  Oct.  10,  181 7,  they 
sold  to  Richard  Jackson  129  acres  of  land  left  to  Landon  by  his 
father,  Thomas  Carter.  They  also  made  a  deed  for  land  Nov. 
3,  1821.  No  other  mention  of  them  occurs  in  the  records,  so 
they  probably  removed  from  the  county  about  this  time. 

21.  Abner  Carter,  born  circa  1788,  married  Martha  Moore 
Dec.  19,  1816.  Sept.  21,  1818  Jos.  Micklin  sold  to  Abner  Car- 
ter two  houses  and  lots  in  the  town  of  Washington,  and  eight 
acres  near  there.  April  16,  1832,  Abner  Carter  and  wife  Martha 
sold  to  James  Carter  a  house  and  lot  in  the  village  of  Flint  Hill. 
No  other  data  of  them. 

22.  Robert  P.  Carter  was  a  partner  of  a  Joseph  W.  Carter 
as  a  merchant  in  Culpeper  in  1823.  April  13,  1821,  Robert  Car- 
ter and  wife  Catharine  sold  his  share  of  his  father  Thomas  Car- 
ter's estate  to  Tilman  Porter.  No  other  data  of  Robert  and 
Catharine  Carter. 

27,.  Joseph  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  Susannah 
Gaines  Carter,  born  in  1792,  died  in  Oldham  County,  Ky.,  Jan. 
1,  1856,  at  the  age  of  64.  Sept.  1,  1814,  he  married  Martha 
Oglesby.  She  may  have  been  of  the  Amherst  County  Oglesbys^ 
as  Joseph  Carter  is  said  to  have  lived  in  that  county  for  a  short 
time  after  his  marriage,  before  he  removed  to  that  part  of  Shelby 
County,  Ky.,  which  later  became  Oldham  County.  His  wife  was 
born  in  1793  and  died  Nov.  7,  1842.  He  then  married  a  cousin 
of  his  first  wife,  named  Jennie  Oglesby.  Joseph  Carter  owned 
a  good  plantation  and  servants  in  Kentucky.  He  had  issue  by 
his  first  wife:  I.  Stephen  Oglesby  Carter,  born  July  4,  1820, 
died  Jan.  15,  1863.  II.  Tipton  Carter,  died  in  Oldham  County, 
Ky.,  leaving  son  Addison,  and  three  daughters.     III.     Addison 


54 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


Carter,  died  unmarried  in  Oldham  County.    IV.     Meredith  Car- 
ter, died  in  Missouri  during  the  war,  leaving  three  daughters. 

T.  Stephen  Oglesdy  Carter,  farmer  in  Oldham  County,  Ky., 
married  Aug.  3,  1843,  Susan  H.  Maddox,  born  Jan.  27,  1820, 
died  Sept.  25,  1862.     They  had  issue  as  follows: 

(1)  Martha  Jane  Carter,  born  May  18,  1844,  married  James 
W.  Beall,  Jan.  27,  1863,  and  died  without  issue. 

(2)  Joseph  Wilson  Carter,  born  July  26,  1846,  married  May 
13,  1869,  Fannie,  daughter  of  Col.  Ingram,  of  Oldham  County. 
They  have  issue:  James  S.,  a  farmer  in  Oldham  County:  Susie 
May,  Roy  S.,  a  physician  in  Louisville ;  Ingram  B.,  farmer  in 
Oldham  County,  and  William,  d.  s.  p. 

(3)  William  Thomas  Carter,  born  Jan.  27,  1849,  died  April 
11,  1896.  He  was  a  physician  in  Louisville,  where  he  married 
Susan  Obst,  and  has  a  son,  Stephen  Obst  Carter,  D.  D.  S.  in 
Louisville. 

(4)  James  Meredith,  born  Oct.  5,  1851,  married  Blance  Carr, 
daughter  of  Eh*.  Joseph  Lonacre  and  Emeline  Smith  Carr,  of 
Clarksburg,  WT.  Va.,  on  June  7,  1882.  They  had  issue,  a  son, 
Joseph  Carr,  who  died  of  tuberculosis  before  the  age  of  twenty, 
and  Emeline  Meredith. 

Mrs.  Carter's  father  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  physicians 
in  his  section  of  Virginia  before  and  after  the  war,  and  was  de- 
scended from  the  Carr,  Lonacre,  and  other  well-known  families 
of  the  Valley  of  Virginia. 

James  M.  Carter  is  a  minister  of  the  Southern  Methodist 
Church,  Western  Virginia  Conference.  The  writer  is  unable  to 
express  in  a  work  of  this  character  his  affectionate  appreciation 
of  the  beautiful  and  charming  personality  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Car- 
ter, whose  intimate  friendship  he  has  enjoyed  for  nearly  twenty 
vears. 


Descendants   of  George   Carter,    of   Lancas- 
ter, Caroline  and  Halifax  Counties 

3.  George  Carter,  Thos.,3  Edw.,2  Thos.,1  of  Christ  Church 
Parish,  Lancaster,  was  probably  born  about  1725-30,  and  died 
in  1785-86  in  Halifax  County,  Va.  He  seems  to  have  possessed 
the  restless  spirit  of  his  generation  and  to  have  lived  in  at  least 
two  other  counties  besides  that  in  which  he  was  born.  The 
author  of  the  Carter  MSS.  in  1858  speaks  of  him  as  follows: 
"George  Carter  settled  in  Caroline  and  had  a  big  family.  I 
think  his  wife  was  a  Miss  Neale,  of  Westmoreland.  He  had 
sons — Charles  Edward,  John,  Richard  Alexander,  Thompson, 
Spencer,  George  and  Presley — and  daughters — Betsy,  Peggy 
and  Sally — and  I  think  other  children.  I  have  seen  George, 
Jun.,  a  few  times.  He  died  in  Fauquier  about  thirty  years  ago, 
and  also  spent  a  night  once  at  John's  tavern  in  Caroline.  I 
think  the  others  all  moved  to  the  southern  counties,  or  may  be 
out  of  the  State." 

Thus  we  see  he  lived  for  a  time  in  Caroline  County,  but  the 
destruction  of  the  county  records  limits  our  knowledge  of  his 
residence  in  this  county.  July  10,  1766,  he  had  a  grant  of  185 
acres  in  the  county  of  Halifax,  and  July  20,  1768,  a  patent  for 
354  acres  in  the  same  county. 

The  census  reports  for  the  years  1782,  1784  and  1785  show 
that  George  Carter  was  not  a  resident  of  Halifax  County,  but  a 
letter  of  his  widow  in  1787  indicates  that  he  had  settled  in  Hali- 
fax and  died  there  between  the  census  of  1785  and  the  date  of 
letter  in  1787.  The  letter  to  the  county  clerk  about  a  license 
for  the  marriage  of  Frederick  Miller  to  Mary  Carter  is  as  fol- 
lows :  "Sir,  as  my  husband  has  lately  departed  from  this  life 
and  the  distance  is  so  far  that  I  could  not  conveniently  come 
down,  should  be  glad  if  you  would  let  Frederick  Miller  have  a 
license  to  marry  my  daughter  and  send  my  son  for  a  witness. 
"Yours,  &c, 

"Frances    Carter." 


56        GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

The  marriage  bond  shows  that  the  daughter's  name  was  Mary, 
and  the  son's,  Presley  Carter. 

There  is  no  will  of  George  Carter  recorded  in  Halifax,  or 
record  of  division  of  his  estate — "the  county  records  at  this  time 
were  very  poorly  kept  and  quite  incomplete" — but  Feb.  7,  1805, 
Thompson  Carter,  Presley  Carter,  Levin  Carter  and  Frederick 
Miller  conveyed  a  hundred  acres  of  land  to  Spencer  Carter, 
which  was  bounded  on  one  side  by  land  of  Charles  E.  Carter. 
As  there  are  no  deeds  recorded  to  the  above  parties  for  the 
above  mentioned  land,  it  probably  came  to  them  by  inheritance 
and  was  a  part  of  the  land  originally  granted  to  George  Carter. 

There  were  several  members  of  the  Giles  Carter  family  living 
in  Halifax  at  this  time,  which  complicates  matters  somewhat. 

The  name  Presley  indicates  that  the  author  of  the  Carter 
MSS.  was  probably  correct  in  his  statement  that  Mrs.  George 
Carter  was  a  Miss  Neale,  as  Presley  was  a  favorite  name  in  that 
family. 

George  Carter  received  from  his  father  a  book  called  "Becket 
on  the  Nezv  Testament,"  which  he  evidently  left  to  his  son 
George,  Jr.,  as  the  latter  in  his  will  in  1829  mentions  the  same 
book. 

George  and  Frances  Neale  (?)  Carter  had  issue: 

24.  Richard  Alexander  Carter,  no  other  data. 

25.  John  Carter,  died  in  Caroline  after  1799. 

26.  George  Carter,  died  in  Fauquier  in  1829. 

27.  Presley  Carter,  living  in  1805. 

28.  Thompson  Carter,  living  in  1805. 

29.  Levin  Carter,  living  in  1805. 

30.  Charles  E.  Carter,  living  in  1805. 

31.  Spencer  Carter,  died  in  1858. 

32.  Mary  Carter,  married  Frederick  Miller  in  1787. 

33.  Margaret  Carter. 

34.  Elizabeth  Carter. 

35.  Sarah  Carter. 

They  probably  had  other  children,  but  these  are  all  whose 
names  are  preserved  by  the  Carter  MSS.  and  the  county  records. 
George  and  Frances  Carter  were  married  probably  about  1750- 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  57 

55 — his  brother  John  was  married  in  1749,  and  brother  Edward 
in  1 75 1,  and  settled  about  that  time  in  Caroline  County.  The 
old  court  order  books  of  Caroline  show  that  in  Feb.,  1755, 
George  Carter  was  ordered  to  deliver  the  estate  of  John  Hub- 
bard, dec'd  to  the  securities;  and  June  9,  1759,  George  Carter 
returned  to  court  on  account  of  the  estate  of  the  Hubbard  or- 
phans. His  name  does  not  appear  again  in  the  order  books  of 
this  county. 

25.  John  Carter  is  mentioned  by  the  Carter  MSS.  as  con- 
ducting a  tavern  in  Caroline  County,  and  the  order  book  for 
1795-98  mentions  John  Carter's  "ordinary  bond."  He  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  the  father  of  the  following  Carters  named 
in  the  Caroline  County  Marriage  Register :  Thompson  Carter 
to  Polly  Farmer,  on  Dec.  22,  1814;  Spencer  Carter  to  Sarah 
Fletcher,  on  Mar.  24,  1815;  Charles  Carter  to  Matilda  Hans,  on 
Dec.  18,  1818,  and  George  Carter  to  Anne  Shackelford,  on  Dec. 
18,  181 8.  He  may  also  have  been  the  father  of  William  Carter, 
who  married  Polly  Carter  on  Jan.  2,  1813,  or  of  William  Carter, 
who  married  Nancy  Pates  on  Jan.  9,  181 5. 

26.  George  Carter,  Jr.,  settled  in  Fauquier  County,  where 
his  will  was  probated  Oct.  29,  1829.  He  was  married  twice,  as 
he  mentions  children  by  his  second  wife,  but  names  neither  one. 
He  left  real  estate  and  a  good  personal  estate.  His  inventory 
mentions  ten  negroes,  a  parcel  of  old  books,  a  dictionary,  lot  of 
pamphlets,  Becket  Explanatory  of  the  Bible  and  New  Testament 
(this  book  was  devised  in  the  will  to  son  Presley),  a  good  lot 
of  household  furniture,  etc.,  and  amounted  to  $1,988.71.  He  had 
issue  as  follows : 

William  Carter,  died  unmarried  in  1812. 

Presley  Carter,  no  other  data. 

Martin  Everett  Carter,  under  age  in  1829. 

George  Carter,  Jr.,  no  other  data. 

Mitty  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Norris,  prior  to  1812. 

Sarah  Carter,  married  a  Mr,  Duvall. 

Pamelia  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Carver. 


58        GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Anne  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Grayson,  prior  to  1812. 

Elizabeth  Carter,  unmarried  in  1829. 

William  Carter's  will,  probated  July  27,  1812,  mentions  195 
acres  of  land  he  had  purchased  from  his  father,  George  Carter. 
He  left  his  estate  to  his  brothers  and  sisters  as  follows:  Mitty 
Norris,  £250;  Elizabeth  Carter.  £200;  Melia  Carter,  £200;  Anne 
Grayson,  £50;  George  Carter.  £50:  and  residue  to  brothers 
Presley  and  Everett. 

27.  Presley  Carter  removed  with  his  parents  to  Halifax 
County.  In  1787  he  was  the  security  at  the  marriage  of  his 
sister  Mary  to  Frederick  Miller.  In  January,  1789,  Presley  Car- 
ter and  Anne  Waddell  were  married  in  Halifax.  In  1791  and 
92  he  purchased  two  tracts  of  land  from  persons  by  the  name 
of  Waddell;  and  in  July,  1794,  Presley  Carter,  of  Pittsylvania 
County  sold  to  Abner  Rodney  199  acres  of  land  in  Halifax. 
Feb.  7,  1805,  Thompson  Carter,  Frederick  Miller,  Presley  Car- 
ter and  Levin  Carter  sold  to  Spencer  Carter  a  hundred  acres  of 
land  lying  on  the  Halifax  side  of  the  Pittsylvania  line,  and  ad- 
joining the  land  of  Chas.  E.  Carter.  This  land  presumably 
came  to  them  from  their  father.  George  Carter.  Presley  Carter 
does  not  appear  again  in  the  records  of  either  county.  Presley 
and  Anne  Waddell  Carter  had  issue  four  sons  and  probably 
other  children.  The  sons  were:  Peyton,  Paschal,  William  and 
Stewart  Carter.  Mr.  Iverson  Carter,  an  aged  gentleman,  who 
lives  near  Danville,  Va.,  is  a  son  of  the  latter,  and  writes  that 
his  uncles  Peyton,  Paschal  and  William  settled  at  Dandridge, 
Tenn.,  and  that  his  father,  Stewart  Carter,  removed  to  Alabama, 
where  he  died,  and  that  about  1840  the  widow  and  her  children 
returned  to  North  Carolina.     No  other  data  of  this  branch. 

28.  Thompson  Carter  and  his  brothers,  Levin  and  Charles 
E.  Carter,  do  not  appear  in  the  Halifax  records  except  as  par- 
ties to  the  deed  to  Spencer  Carter  in  1805.  A  Thompson  Carter, 
presumably  a  son  of  one  of  these,  was  married  in  Feb.,  1830, 
to  Nancy  W.  Young.  I  have  no  data  of  the  descendants  of  either 
of  them. 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  59 

31.  Spencer  Carter  was  probably  one  of  the  younger  chil- 
dren of  George  and  Frances  Neale  Carter,  and  was  probably 
named  for  his  first  cousin,  Spencer  Carter,  son  of  John  Carter, 
of  Lancaster.  He  appears  first  in  the  Halifax  records  in  1805, 
when  he  purchased  a  hundred  acres  of  land  from  his  brothers, 
Presley,  Levin  and  Thompson  and  as  he  owned  another  hundred 
acres  in  the  same  tract,  it  is  presumed  that  he  inherited  it,  since 
no  deed  for  same  can  be  found  in  the  records  of  either  Halifax 
or  Pittsylvania — the  land  lying  in  both  counties.  May  1,  1856, 
Spencer  Carter  conveyed  by  deed  to  his  son,  Richard  Carter,  his 
home  place  of  200  acres  of  land  lying  in  the  counties  of  Halifax 
and  Pittsylvania,  with  the  exception  of  one  acre — the  burying 
ground.  He  had  houses  on  each  side  of  the  county  line,  and 
Nov.  26,  1830,  was  living  on  the  Pittsylvania  side,  when  he  pur- 
chased a  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Halifax  from  C.  I.  Evans. 
His  wife  seems  to  have  inherited  half  of  a  tract  of  290  acres  in 
Halifax  from  her  father,  James  Lucas,  as  Dec.  1,  1833,  Spencer 
Carter  and  wife,  Matilda,  and  Richard  T.  Dismukes  and  wife, 
Mary,  conveyed  to  Charles  Lucas  the  tract  of  290  acres,  which 
James  Lucas  had  died  seized  and  possessed  of. 

It  is  thought  that  Spencer  Carter  was  married  twice,  the  two 
wives  being  sisters.  His  descendants  have  perpetuated  the  name 
of  Yalinda  Lucas,  which  they  are  certain  was  the  name  of  their 
ancestress,  and  the  above  deed  gives  the  name  of  Spencer's  wife 
as  Matilda  Lucas.  At  any  rate,  Spencer  Carter's  father-in-law, 
James  Lucas,  served  as  a  private  in  the  Revolution  in  an  in- 
fantry regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Price.  He  lived  formerly 
near  Ellicott  City,  Md..  but  in  1805  was  living  in  Halifax 
County,  Va.,  when  he  was  a  witness  to  the  deed  to  Spencer 
Carter. 

Spencer  Carter  died  about  the  year  1858  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Jane  Soyars,  in  Pittsylvania  County.  Her  home 
was  burned  later,  and  the  family  Bible  and  other  records  de- 
stroyed.    Spencer  Carter  had  issue  by  his  wife.  Yerlinda  Lucas : 

36.  Richard  Carter,  born  in  1808,  died  June  11,  1877. 

37.  Jane  Carter,  born  Dec.  8,  1809,  died  Mar.  23,  if 

38.  Alexander  Carter,  born  in  1817.  died  in  1858. 

39.  John  Carter,  no  data. 


60        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

40.  James  Carter,  no  data. 

41.  George  Carter,  no  data. 

42.  Thomas  Carter,  no  data. 

43.  Alfred  Carter,  no  data. 

44.  Mary    Carter,   married   John   Anderson,   and   has   a    son, 
Nicholas,  living  now  in  Texas. 

45.  Ruth  Holmes  Carter,  died  young. 


Halifax  Carters. 

36.  Richard  Carter  was  married  in  Halifax  on  Oct.  14,  1830, 
to  Elizabeth  Sheppard,  daughter  of  John  T.  Sheppard  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Vass. 

Mrs.  Carter  died  Oct.  28,  1863,  and  he  married  secondly  Mrs. 
Martha  Richardson,  nee  Bohannon,  widow  of  Thomas  Richard- 
son. She  was  born  about  1832  and  died  March  11,  1907.  Rich- 
ard Carter  purchased  the  old  home  place  from  his  father,  Spen- 
cer Carter,  in  1856,  but  had  been  living  on  a  part  of  the  farm 
previously.     He  had  issue  as  follows: 

First  Marriage. 

46.  John  Spencer  Carter,  born  Aug.  15,  1831,  died  May  1, 
1 901. 

47.  Elizabeth  Verlinda  Carter,  born  Oct.  15,  1833,  living, 
married  Wm.  Motley. 

48.  Emily  Jane  Carter,  born  Apr.  6,  1836,  married  Paul  Mar- 
shall, of  Pittsylvania  County,  and  died  without  issue. 

49.  Richard  Alexander  Carter,  born  Nov.  11,  1838,  died  Jan. 
29,  1867. 

50.  Charles  Samuel  Carter,  born  Jan.  24,  1844,  living. 

51.  Phillip  Vass  Carter,  born  Oct.  15,  1845,  living. 

52.  Mary  Anne  Carter,  born  June  20,  1849,  married  Samuel 
Milam  and  had  one  son,  who  died  young. 

Second  Marriage. 

53.  Edwin  S.  Carter,  born  July  22,  1866,  living. 

54.  Richard  T.  Carter,  born  Sept.  29,  1869,  died  Sept.  8,  1884. 

55.  Nannie  E.  Carter,  born  Feb.  10,  1871,  living. 

56.  William  H.  Carter,  born  Aug.  20,  1873,  living. 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  61 

46  John  Spencer  Carter,  married  Jan.  25,  1853,  Sarah  Jud- 
ith Walters  (born  Aug.  29,  1828,  died  March  20,  1891),  daughter 
of  Robert  Wister  Walters,  of  Pittsylvania  County.  John  Spencer 
Carter  was  a  private  in  the  Brooklyn  Grays,  23d  Va.  Reg.  C.  S.  A., 
and  was  slightly  wounded  in  Pickett's  charge  at  Gettysburg.  Had 
issue  as  follows : 

57.  Sarah  Jane  Carter,  born  Dec.  1,  1853. 

58.  John  Samuel  Carter,  born  Feb.  18,  1855. 

59.  Elizabeth  Bates  Carter,  born  May  6,  1856. 

60.  Charles  Wall  Carter,  born  Oct.  25,  1859,  died  May  21,  i860. 

61.  Charles  Richard  Carter,  born  July  10,  1861. 

62.  William  Henry  Carter,  born  July  7,  1866. 

63.  Robert  Wister  Carter,  born  Jan.  10,  1869,  died  July  24,  1888, 
unmarried. 

57.  Sarah  Jane  Carter,  married  Dec.  15,  1868,  William  Mat- 
thew Dillard,  a  farmer  living  near  Ringgold,  Pittsylvania  County. 
They  have  issue : 

64.  George  Samuel  Dillard,  born  Dec.  10,  1869,  married  in  1896, 
Sallie  B.  Motley,  and  has  issue:  Willie  Lee,  Bessie  Ree,  and 
Annie  May  Dillard. 

65.  John  Spencer  Dillard,  born  February  25,  187 1,  died  Novem- 
ber 15,  1905,  unmarried. 

66.  Sarah  Elizabeth  Dillard,  born  September  6,  1872,  died 
March  1,  1907,  unmarried. 

67.  Lucy  Anne  Dillard,  born  February  3,  1874,  died  Septem- 
ber, 1894,  unmarried. 

68.  Emma  Lee  Dillard,  born  October  27,  1877,  married  April 
30,  1900,  James  A.  Goodson,  of  Pittsylvania  county,  and  lives 
near  Danville.  Has  issue — Robert  Wesley  and  Charles  Lee 
Goodson. 

69.  Jenny  Alice  Dillard,  born  July  9,  1879. 

70.  Charles  Edgar  Dillard,  born  October  20,  1880,  died  May 
7,  1881. 

71.  William  Henry  Dillard,  born  July  13,  1882,  died  February 
20,  1901. 


02  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

~2.  Joe  Younger  Dillard,  born  April  7,  1886,  is  a  merchant  at 
Ringgold. 

73.  Peter  Stanford  Dillard,  born  September  8,  1888,  lives  near 
Ringgold,  Ya. 

74.  Dora  Edna  Dillard,  born  September  3,  1891. 

58.  John  Samuel  Carter,  married  on  June  25,  1879,  Juna 
Willie  Faris,  daughter  of  Coleman  Faris,  of  Pittsylvania  county, 
and  lives  near  Danville.     Has  issue : 

75.  Dora  Edna  Carter,  born  March  9,  1880,  died  infant. 

76.  John  Coleman  Carter,  born  May  17,  1882,  married  Septem- 
ber 9,  1906,  Nellie  K.  Williams,  daughter  of  Charles  Williams, 
of  Dry  Fork,  Ya.,  and  has  issue:  Stanley  Wayman,  John  Spen- 
cer and  Alice  Lee  Carter. 

yy.  Gertrude  F.  Carter,  born  November  7,  1883,  died  infant. 
78.  Rorer  Carter,  born  June  17,  1893. 

61.  Charles  Richard  Carter,  Reno  Nevada.  Mr.  Carter  was 
for  a  number  of  years  engaged  in  telegraph  and  station-master 
work  in  Virginia  and  Alabama.  In  1888,  after  living  for  a  short 
time  in  California,  he  settled  in  Nevada,  where  he  became  in- 
terested in  a  mercantile  business  and  holds  a  position  in  the 
Washoe  County  Bank.  He  is  treasurer  of  The  Union  Building 
and  Loan  Association  of  Reno ;  treasurer  of  the  Baptist  church 
of  that  city ;  treasurer  of  the  Nevada  Baptist  Convention,  and  Y. 
M.  C.  A. ;  was  vice-president  of  the  Anti-Gambling  League,  which 
after  two  years'  hard  fighting  succeeded  in  putting  licensed 
gambling  out  of  the  State ;  he  has  held  several  offices  in  his 
local  lodge  of  I.  O.  O.  F.,  as  well  as  the  Grand  Lodge,  of  which 
he  is  now  Grand  Warden.  Mr.  Carter  has  furnished  the  data 
of  his  branch  of  the  family.  He  was  married  in  San  Francisco, 
Cal.,  on  July  10,  1894,  to  Jessie  Gray  Ford  (born  November  15, 
1872),  daughter  of  Charles  Ford  of  Yerdi,  Nevada,  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth  Charlotte  Gray.  They  have  issue :  Robert  Ford  Car- 
ter, born  May  21,  1896,  Marcia  Ray  Carter,  born  May  12,  1900, 
and  Charles  Valentine  Carter,  born  Feb.  14,  1907. 


Charles  Richard  Carter, 
Reno,    Nevado. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  63 

62.  William  Henry  Carter,  married  Jan.  21,  1890,  Sarah  M. 
Stultz  (born  Dec.  15,  1867),  of  Henry  County,  Ya.,  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  a  brother  of  Chief  Justice  John  Marshall.  He  lives 
in  Danville,  and  has  issue:  Dora  Lee,  born  Nov.  29,  1890;  Cora 
Frances,  born  April  27,  1893  ;  William  Edgar,  born  May  21,  1895, 
and  Nora  P.,  born  March  15,  1899. 

50.  Charles  Samuel  Carter  was  a  member  of  Co.  A,  38th 
Ya.  Regt.  Armistead's  Brigade  in  the  Confederate  army.  He  was 
married  Jan.  14,  1873,  to  Judith  Anne  Travis  (  born  Feb.  29,  1852), 
daughter  of  Capt.  John  C.  and  Mary  West  Travis,  of  Caswell 
county,  X.  C,  and  now  lives  in  Salisbury,  X.  C.    They  have  issue: 

79.  Mary  Edna  Carter,  born  Oct.  27,  1873,  died  Xov.  14,  1895, 
unmarried. 

80.  Bessie  Frances  Carter,  born  Feb.  9,  1876,  married  March 
21,  1903,  Duke  Leon  Smith,  of  X.  C,  and  died  Sept.  13,  1911, 
leaving  one  child  :    Julia  Frances  Smith. 

81.  Charlie  Cabell  Carter,  born  Dec.  9,  1879,  died  infant. 

82.  Grace  Estelle  Carter,  born  July  3,  1881,  died  infant. 

83.  Samuel  Carter,  born  June  6,  1884,  now  a  pharmacist,  Salis- 
bury, X.  C. 

84.  William  Stamey  Carter,  born  May  14,  1887. 

85.  Walter  Carter,  born  Aug.  19,  1889,  a  medical  student. 

86.  Annie  Lucile  Carter,  born  April  14,  1893,  died  infant. 

51.  Phillip  Yass  Carter  was  a  member  of  Co.  A.  38th  Ya. 
Reg.  C.  S.  After  the  war  he  was  married  to  Margaret  Woody,  of 
Caswell  county,  XT.  C,  and  had  issue  : 

87.  William  Yass  Carter. 

88.  Xannie  Carter,  married  Samuel  Milam,  of  Halifax  county. 

89.  Margaret  J.  Carter,  married  March  30,  1902,  John  Lewis 
Cook,  and  has  issue :  Lewis  Harman,  Essie  James,  and  Swan- 
son  Cook. 

90.  Dora  Lue  Carter,  married  March  13,  1903,  Robert  Pace  Ab- 
bott, and  has  issue :    Robert  Thornton  and  Xoel  Hughes  Abbott. 


64        GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

56.  William  H.  Carter,  married  Susan  A ,  and 

had  issue  :  Carson  Carter,  born  April  22,  1901,  died  infant ;  Hugh 
W.  Carter,  born  July  17,  1903 ;  Edgar  Carter,  born  May  19,  1906; 
Gertrude  Carter,  born  May  30,  191 1. 

55.  Nannie  E.  Carter,  married  Ernest  Strickland  and  has  one 
child,  Claud  L.  Strickland,  born  Oct.  24,  1897. 

37.  Jane  Carter,  eldest  daughter  of  Spencer  and  Verlinda  Lu- 
cas Carter,  married  Thomas  O.  Soyars,  of  Pittsylvania  county,  and 
had  issue: 

91.  Thomas  O.  Soyars,  born  in  1851,  married  May  25,  1874, 
Maria  Tuck,  of  Halifax,  and  had  issue:  John  Alexander,  Sallie 
Whitt,  Jane  C,  and  B.  F.  Soyars.    All  living. 

92.  John  Soyars,  born  Feb.  23,  1853,  married  March  5,  1874, 
Virginia  M.  Harris,  of  Ruffin,  N.  C.  They  live  near  Ringgold, 
Va.,  and  have  issue :  Edwin  Thomas  Soyars,  born  March  14, 
1875,  married  a  Miss  Giles,  and  died  March  7,  1905,  leaving  a  son, 
Alvis,  and  a  daughter,  Eddie ;  James  Ruffin,  born  August  30, 
1877,  died  1895,  and  William  S.,  born  Oct.  12,  1879. 

38.  Alexander  Carter,  one  of  the  younger  sons  of  Spencer 
and  Verlinda  L.  Carter,  was  married  in  1840  to  Martha  Lyon 
(born  1820,  died  1895),  daughter  of  William  and  Eleanor  Ander- 
son Lyon,  of  Pittsylvania  county.    They  had  issue : 

93.  William  Spencer  Carter,  born  May  31,  1841,  died  June  14, 
1896. 

94.  Elizabeth  Jane  Carter,  born  July,  1843. 

95.  John  Alexander  Carter,  born  in  1846,  died  in  1887. 

96.  James  Heritage  Carter,  born  in  1848,  died  in  1885. 

97.  Mary  Ellen  Carter,  born  in  1857,  died  in  1883. 

93.  William  Spencer  Carter,  enlisted  in  Co.  A,  38th  Va. 
Regt.  under  Capt.  Jos.  Cabell,  and  was  wounded  three  times,  once 
seriously  at  Gettysburg.  Sept.  16,  1863,  he  was  married  to  Cor- 
nelia Guerrant  and  had  issue  : 

97.  James  Horace  Carter,  born  April  14,  1867,  married  (1) 
Sallie  Chandler,  April  23,  1890,  and  had  issue:     Sue  Lee,  Numa 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  65 

Richardson,  James  H.,  Jr.,  and  William  Spencer;    (2)    Bessie 
Borum,  Oct.  25,  1904.    No  issue. 

98.  Annie  Vernon  Carter,  born  April  27,  1869,  married  April 
22,  1888,  to  Avis  Stacey  and  has  issue :  Eleanor  Lyon,  Janie  Sue, 
William  Carter,  Irene,  Guerrant,  Linda  Vernon,  and  Alvis  Louis. 

99.  Jennie  Eleanor  Carter,  born  August  7,  1874,  married  Ernest 
L.  Wright,  Dec.  13,  1893,  of  Ruffin,  N.  C,  and  has  issue:  Wm. 
Brown,  Sam  King,  Ernest  Linwood,  Joe  Guerrant,  Mary  Carter, 
and  Ivey  King. 

100.  Lucie  Daniel  Carter,  born  Oct.  9,  1877,  married  Edgar 
Wright,  April  6,  1898,  and  had  a  daughter,  Cornelia  Ann. 

101.  Augusta  Cornelia  Carter,  born  Jan.  25,  1880,  married 
Charles  Anderson,  April  8,  1903,  and  has  issue:  Mary  Wylds, 
Charles  Wesley  and  Geo.  Augustus. 

94.  Elizabeth  Jane  Carter,  married  (1)  in  1861,  William 
Calhoun,  and  (2)  in  1869,  Joseph  Hill.    Issue: 

102.  Eugenia  H.  Calhoun,  born  April  3,  1862,  married  James 
Jones,  Dec.  1,  1880,  and  has  issue:  John  W.,  Minnie  Anderson, 
Mary  Lee,  Annie  Elizabeth,  Charles  Richardson,  Nellie  Gray, 
Margaret  Eugenia,  and  James  Russell. 

103.  Pattie  Will  Calhoun,  born  1865,  died  1867. 

95.  John  Alexander  Carter,  enlisted  as  a  Confederate  ca- 
valryman, when  but  a  little  past  fourteen  years  of  age.  He  mar- 
ried first  in  1867,  Nannie  Nunally,  and  (2)  in  1880,  Sallie  Poin- 
dexter.    Issue  by  first  marriage : 

104.  Mattie  Sue  Carter,  born  Feb.  21,  1868,  married  in  1887 
to  James  Howerton. 

105.  Wm.  Austin  Carter,  born  Aug.  20,  1871,  married  Lula 
C.  Hotton,  Nov.  25,  1897,  and  has  issue:  Edna  May,  Clarence 
Dandridge,  Harold  Lee,  and  Wm.  Alvin  Carter. 

106.  Mary  Ellen  Carter,  born  June  6,  1875,  married  Charles 
Rawlins,  Nov.  24,  1895,  and  has  issue:  Ernest  Linwood,  Frank 
Allen,  Martha  Dandridge,  and  Mary  Sue. 

107.  John  Dandridge  Carter,  born  Feb.  11,  1880,  married 
Sophia  Fitzgerald,  Dec.  21,  1903,  and  has  issue:  Helen  Virginia, 
and  Nancy  Nunally. 


66       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

John  Alexander  Carter  had  issue  by  second  marriage  two 
daughters,  Nannie  and  Sallie,  who  died  young. 

96.  James  Heritage  Carter,  married  (1)  in  1873,  Emma 
Hagood  (no  issue)  ;  (2)  in  1879,  Jennie  Howerton.  and  had  one 
child. 

97.  Mary  Ellen  Carter,  married  in  1874,  Thomas  Hagood. 
and  has  issue : 

108.  Deborah  Hodges  Hagood,  born  in  Aug.,  1875,  married 
Wm.  P.  Holderby  and  has  issue :  Mary  Virginia,  Clayton  Syd- 
nor,  Minnie,  Thomas  Moreau,  and  Frank  Penn. 

109.  William  Courts  Hagood,  born  in  1877.  died  in  1900. 
no.  John    Thomas   Hagood,   born   in   1879,  married   in    1906, 

a  Miss  Clay,  and  has  issue:    Oakey,  and  Julian. 

in.  Floyd  Taylor  Hagood,  born  in  1883,  married  in  1905.  Ada 
Martin  and  has  issue,  Lillian  Haygood. 


Mrs.   William   Carter, 

nee   Jane   Creshaw, 

Born  July  19,  1777.    (from  old  portrait). 


Descendants  of  Raleigh  Carter,  of  Lancaster 
and  Nottoway  Counties 

6.  Raleigh  Carter  (Thos.3,  Edw.2.  Thos.x)  was  probably  the 
youngest  of  the  six  sons  of  Thomas  Carter,  of  Christ  Church 
parish,  Lancaster,  and  his  first  wife.  He  was  born  in  Lancaster 
about  1740  and  died  in  Nottoway  prior  to  1820,  leaving  numerous 
and  prominent  descendants.  He  was  married  two  times,  first  in 
Lancaster  to  Sarah  Sharpe,  a  ward  of  James  Ball — marriage  bond 
dated  Sept.  5.  1765:  (2)  to  Lucy  Anne  Crenshaw,  daughter  of 
Win.  Crenshaw,  of  Nottoway  county,  in  1798-99. 

Between  the  date  of  his  first  marriage  and  Dec.  7,  1772,  Raleigh 
Carter  removed  from  Lancaster,  to  what  was  then  Amelia  county, 
as  on  the  latter  date  "Raleigh  Carter,  of  Amelia  county,  planter*' 
sold  to  Burgess  Ball,  of  Lancaster,  part  of  a  tract  of  468  acres 
of  land  left  by  Elias  Edwards  to  his  sisters  (half  sisters  ?),  one 
of  whom  was  the  said  Sarah  Sharpe  Carter.  In  1776  he  inherit- 
ed from  his  father  a  negro  servant.  "The  Upper  Plantation,*' 
and  a  sbare  of  the  residuary  estate,  in  Lancaster.  In  1777  he 
sold  his  share  of  his  father's  home  plantation,  which  came  to 
him  in  the  division  of  the  residuary  estate,  to  his  brother  Edward 
Carter. 

In  1782  Raleigh  Carter  was  a  justice  of  the  Amelia  County 
Court,  and  doubtless  continued  as  such  until  Xottoway  county 
was  formed.  In  1792  he  was  high  sheriff  of  Nottoway.  The 
census  of  1782  shows  him  to  have  been  the  head  of  a  family  of 
eight  whites  and  twenty-one  servants.  This  indicates  that  he 
had  six  children. 

The  family  Bible  was  burned  during  the  war  and  likewise 
most  of  the  early  records  of  Nottoway  county,  so  that  it  is  im- 
possible to  get  a  complete  account  of  Raleigh  Carter's  children, 
and  the  date  of  his  death.  An  old  tax  receipt  shows  that  Sept. 
4,  1821,  Dabney  Morris  and  Lee  Jones,  executors  of  Raleigh 
Carter,  dec'd,  paid  taxes  on  1,690  acres  of  land  and  125  slaves 
in  Nottoway  county  belonging  to  his  estate. 


68       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

He  is  said  to  have  had  issue  six  children  by  the  first  mar- 
riage and  three  by  the  last,  but  the  names  of  four  of  the  first 
have  not  been  preserved.    The  others  are  as  follows : 

112.  Raleigh  Carter,  Jr.,  married  Susannah  Stokes,  of  Lunen- 
burg county,  on  June  30,  1805,  and  died  later  without  issue. 

113.  William  Carter,  born  May  11,  1771,  died  Nov.  18,  1817. 

114.  Charles  Carter,  born  in  1800,  died  in  1883. 

115.  Francis  Carter,  born  in  1802,  married  Jane  Lee,  said  to 
have  been  a  member  of  the  great  Virginia  family  of  that  name. 
They  had  issue :  Bettie,  died  in  infancy ;  Sidney  Lee  died  in 
infancy ;  and  Nancy,  married  her  cousin,  Charles  Wesley  Carter. 

1 16.  Lucy  Carter,  said  to  have  married  a  Mr.  Osborne. 

113.  William  Carter,  only  son  of  Raleigh  Carter  and  his 
first  wife,  who  left  surviving  issue,  was  married  Dec.  17,  1795, 
to  Jane  Crenshaw,  daughter  of  Wm.  Crenshaw,  and  sister  of 
the  second  Mrs.  Raleigh  Carter. 

Wm.  Carter  owned  a  fine  plantation  adjoining  that  of  his 
brother,  Charles  Haynie  Carter,  and  about  eight  miles  from  Not- 
toway C.  H.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  county  militia  and  a  man 
of  great  social  prominence  in  Nottoway  and  surrounding  coun- 
ties.   He  had  issue  as  follows : 

117.  Sarah  Everett  Carter,  born  Oct.  29,  1796. 

118.  Mary  Anne  Carter,  born  Feb.  23,  1798,  died  July  10,  1862. 

119.  Jane  Carter,  born  Nov.  24,  1799. 

120.  Raleigh  Carter,  born  Nov.  17,  1801,  died  in  1820. 

121.  William  Carter,  Jr.,  born  Oct.  14,  1803,  died  in  1817. 

122.  Ailcy  Carter,  born  Sept.  21,  1805,  died  infant. 

123.  Mildred  Haynie  Carter,  born  Feb.  15,  1808. 

124.  Ailcy  Bond  Carter,  born  Dec.  10,  1810. 

125.  Sharpe  Carter,  born  Oct.  25,  181 2. 

126.  Richard  Thomas  Carter,  born  Jan.  12,  1815,  died  in  182 1. 

127.  Joseph  Carter,  M.  D.,  born  Dec.  4,  1816. 

Mrs.  Jane  Crenshaw  Carter,  born  July  19,  1777,  and  died  Dec. 
10,  1851. 


Col.    John    Hughes    Kxight    (from    old    portrait). 
Mrs.   Sallie  Everett   Carter   Knight    (from   old   portrait). 
"Claremcnt,"   Nottoway  Co..  Va-,  built   1818  by  Col.   Knight. 


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Carters  of  Nottaway — Knight  Branch. 

117.  Sarah  Everett  Carter,  married  April  11,  1815,  Col. 
John  Hughes  Knight,  a  prominent  Nottoway  banker  and  planter, 
son  of  Woodson  Knight,  of  Prince  Edward  county,  and  his  wife 
Patty  Walton,  who  were  married  June  18,  1781.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Gen.  George  Walton,  of  Prince  Edward,  and  cousin 
of  George  Walton,  the  Georgia  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence. Woodson  Knight  was  the  son  of  John  Knight,  Jr., 
who  settled  in  Lunenburg  county  in  1766,  and  married  Eliza- 
beth Woodson,  of  a  fine  old  Goochland  family.  Col.  John  Hughes 
Knight  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature  for  a  number 
of  years,  senior  partner  of  the  banking  firm  of  Knight  and  Oliver, 
and  lived  at  "Claremont,"  near  Nottoway  C.  H.  Mrs.  Charles 
E.  Wingo,  Richmond,  has  portraits  of  Col.  and  Mrs.  Knight. 
They  had  issue : 

128.  William  Carter  Knight,  born  June  18,  1818,  died  Feb. 
2,  1896. 

129.  Dr.  Oscar  Mansfield  Knight,  born  Oct.  23,  1823.  Living 
1912. 

130.  John  Hughes  Knight,  Jr.,  born  Oct.  25,  1829.  Living 
1912. 

131.  George  Walton  Knight,  born  March  31,  1836,  died  May 

27,  i857- 

132.  Mary  Prvor  Knight,  born  Feb.  27,   1833,  died  Sept.  8, 

1855- 

133.  Lucy  Knight. 

134.  Indiana  W.  Knight,  born  Feb.  26,  1827,  died  March  4, 
1844. 

The  last  four  died  of  tuberculosis. 

128.  Col.  William  Carter  Knight,  entered  old  Randolph- 
Macon  College  in  1832,  remained  two  sessions  and  then  went  to 
Hampden-Sidney,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1835 !  and 
then  took  a  course  in  law  and  modern  languages  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia.  Was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Prince  Edward 
county  in  1839.  Preferring  the  life  of  a  planter  he  purchased 
a  place  in  Nottoway  in   1841,  where  he  was  soon  known  as  a 


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model  planter.  In  1859  he  became  the  owner  of  the  famous  old 
Randolph  estate.  "Wilton,"  below  Richmond,  the  home  of  the 
colonial  beauty  Anne  Randolph,  known  to  her  friends  as  "Nancy 
Wilton."  During-  the  war  Col.  Knight  furnished  the  Confeder- 
ate government  with  over  half  a  million  dollars  worth  of  supplies 
from  this  plantation,  and  like  other  creditors  of  this  ill-starred 
government  saw  this  fortune  become  worthless  when  it  passed 
away.  After  the  war  he  removed  to  Richmond  and  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  farm  implements  in  partnership  with  Mr. 
( ieorge  Watt,  Sr.,  who  had  married  Col.  Knight's  cousin,  Amanda 
Swarm.  Later  was  president  of  the  Richmond  Stove  Works. 
All  his  life  he  was  a  prominent  and  scientific  agriculturist,  and 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Virginia  Agricultural  Society,  and 
was  -aiccessively  its  secretary  and  president.  t883-'8o,  he  was 
editor  of  the  Southern  Planter  and  Fanner,  and  in  1896  its  editor 
paid  the  following  tribute  to  Col.  Knight : 

"In  our  daily  intercourse  with  him  we  were  often  struck  with 
the  versatility  of  his  knowledge  and  his  capacity  for  applying 
the  same  to  the  every-day  work  of  life.  He  was  well  versed  in 
the  theory  and  practice  of  mechanics,  and  no  stronger  proof  of 
the  vigor  of  his  intelliect,  even  in  his  old  age,  can  be  given  than 
when  over  seventy  years  of  age  he  invented  and  patented  a  rotary 
engine.  In  all  relations  of  life  Col.  Knight  was  pre-eminently  a 
gentleman.  Gentle  in  manner,  courteous  in  demeanor,  consider- 
ate of  all.  Whilst  holding  his  opinions  tenaciously  and  support- 
ing them,  if  need  be,  vigorously,  he  never  allowed  himself  to  be 
betrayed  into  language  for  which  afterwards  he  need  feel  re- 
gret." 

June  12,  1839,  he  married  Elizabeth  Guerrant  Dickinson,  who 
died  Sept.  1,  1849,  an^  Nov.  12,  1851,  he  married  Cleverine 
Thomas,  who  died  Dec.  29,  191 1,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven. 

Dupuy  Excursus. 

Mrs-  Elizabeth  Carter  Knight,  daughter  of  L.  D.  and  .Mary  Du- 
puy Dickinson,  and  granddaughter  of  James  and  Mary  Purnell  Dupuy. 
Old  French  genealogies  carry  the  Dupuy  family  back  to  a  Roman 
origin;  and  Moeri  in  his  "Le  Grande  Dictionaire  les  Genealogies  Des 
France,"    in    1789.    gives    twelve    named    generations    between    Chevalier 


Cm..  Wm.  Carter  Knight, 
Richmond,   Va. 


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was  the  granddaughter  of  Periguine  White,  the  first  white  child  born 
in  Plyrr.outh,  son  of  Wm.  and  Susannah  White,  who  came  over  in  the 
Mayflower.     Data    furnished   by   Mrs.   C.    E.   Wingo. 

Col.  William  Carter  Knight  had  issue  four  children  by  each 
marriage,  as  follows : 

135.  Carter  upuy  Knight,   died  infant. 

136.  Robert  Dickinson  Knight,  born  in  1844,  died  in  May.  1895. 

137.  Jennie  Wickliffe  Knight,  born  June  6,  1846,  died  June 
13,  1908. 

138.  Emmett  Carter  Knight,  born  in  March,  1848. 

139.  William  Oscar  Knight,  born  Sept.  6,  1852. 

140.  Wray  Thomas  Knight,  born  Feb.  20,  1854. 

141.  Sarah  Everett  Knight,  born  Oct.  15,  1855. 

142.  Creed  Thomas  Knight,  born  in  1857. 

136.  Robert  D.  Knight,  was  a  member  of  Co.  I,  Richmond 
Howitzers,  during  the  war.  He  married  Alice  Clay  and  had  is- 
sue six  children.     Lived  in  Chesterfield  county. 

137.  Jennie  W.  Knight,  married  first,  Henry  Delaplaine 
Danford,  secretary  of  the  Mutual  Assurance  Society,  of  Rich- 
mond, and  had  issue :  Bessie,  died  infant,  and  John  B.,  an  elec- 
trical engineer  at  Birmingham,  Ala.,  married  Lucy  Cobb,  of 
Montgomery,  and  has  no  issue.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war  Mr. 
Danford  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Co.  F.,  21st  Va.  Vols.  C.  S.  A., 
and  soon  rose  to  the  rank  of  captain.  Mrs.  Danford  married, 
second,  Hon.  Charles  Triplett  O'Ferrall,  a  prominent  lawyer 
and  judge,  colonel  in  the  Confederate  army,  member  of  Congress 
for  twelve  years,  Governor  of  Virginia,  i894-'98,  etc.  They  had 
issue:  Frank  Knight  O'Ferrall,  of  Richmond;  Wm.  Carter 
O'Ferrall,  of  Birmingham;  Mabel  O'Ferrall;  Helen  O'Ferrall, 
married  J.  Taylor  Thompson,  a  Farmville  attorney. 

138.  Emmett  Carter  Knight,  married  Josephine  Mayo  and 
had  three  daughters.  Was  a  member  of  the  famous  V.  M.  I. 
Cadet  Corps  in  the  Confederate  army,  that  distinguished  itself 
at  New  Market  and  elsewhere  during  the  war. 

139.  William  O.  Knight,  farmer,  at  "Elmwood,"  Louisa 
county.     Unmarried. 


Homes  of  Col.  Wm.  Carter  Knight  Before  the  War. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  ?$ 

140.  Wray  T.  Knight,  retired  merchant  of  Richmond,  post- 
master under  Cleveland  and  Harrison;  married  in  Jan.  1879, 
Louise  Winn  Talbott  and  has  three  sons  and  two  daughters — 
Mrs.  M.  Y.  Manley,  Macon,  Ga.,  and  Mrs.  George  Cooper,  Mon- 
terey, Mexico.     Sons'  names  not  furnished  me. 

141.  Sarah  E.  Knight,  married  Dec.  18,  1878,  Charles  Evans 
Wingo,  son  of  Wm.  A.  and  Sarah  Johnson  Wingo,  of  Amelia 
county.  He  was  a  member  of  Co.  I,  Richmond  Howitzers  until 
severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Sharpsburg.  After  the  war 
he  organized  the  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  firm  of  Wingo,  Ellet  & 
Crump;  was  vice-president  of  the  American  National  Bank  of 
Richmond,  and  the  Farmers  and  Merchants  Bank  of  Amelia, 
and  director  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce  and  Trusts,  Richmond. 
Member  of  Virginia  Legislature  1907  to  1910.  Born  July 
12,  1843,  died  March  20,  191 1,  after  a  short  illness  of  double 
pneumonia;  he  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  public-spirited 
citizens  of  Richmond  and  was  mourned  throughout  the  city.  As 
a  mark  of  respect  the  Governor  ordered  the  flags  on  the  capitol 
displayed  at  half  mast.  They  had  issue:  Jane;  Charles  E.,  Jr., 
graduate  of  V.  M.  I.  in  1901,  and  Cornell  in  1903;  William 
Wythe,  graduate  of  V.  P.  I.  in  1905 ;  John  Trevillian,  graduate 
of  University  of  Virginia  in  1909,  now  of  the  law  firm  of  Well- 
ford  and  Wingo,  Richmond. 

142.  Creed  T.  Knight,  merchant  in  Chicago,  married  Jennie 
Aberdeen,  of  Canada,  and  has  issue :  Creed  T.,  Grace,  Cleverine 
and  Jessie. 

129.  Oscar  Mansfield  Knight,  M.  D.,  of  "Claremont,"  the 
old  Knight  home  in  Nottoway  county,  was  a  member  of  the  first 
class  to  graduate  from  the  V.  M.  I.,  and  later  received  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  from  the  Medical  College  of  Virginia.  Was  a  captain 
in  the  Confederate  army.  Married  Ellen  Todd  and  has  one 
daughter,  Sarah  Everett  Knight,  who  married  a  Mr.  De  Campe, 
of  New  Jersey,  and  has  two  children. 

130.  John  Hughes  Knight,  Jr.,  of  "Poplar  Hill,"  near  Farm- 
ville,  was  educated  at  Hampden-Sidney,  University  of  Virginia, 
and  Columbia  University.    Was  graduated  in  law  from  the  Uni- 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


versity  of  Virginia  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Prince  Edward 
county.  Entered  Co.  K..  3rd  Ya.  Cavalry,  as  sergeant,  and  came 
out  as  captain  at  close  of  the  war.  Was  twice  wounded.  Oct. 
12,  1853,  married  Cornelia  Alice  Bland,  daughter  of  John  Archer 
Bland,  of  Nottoway,  and  his  wife  Mary  Anne  Dickinson. 

Bland  Excursus. 

John  Bland  and  his  wife  Susan  Duclere  of  Syth  Lane,  St-  Antholin 
parish,  London,  had  four  sons  who  emigrated  to  Virginia  in  the  latter 
half  of  the  seventeenth  century — John,  Jr.,  Edward,  Adam,  and  The- 
odorick. This  family  is  one  of  high  respectability,  and  dates  back  to  a 
remote  period  in  England. 

Theodorick  Bland,  baptized  at  St.  Antholin's.  Jan.  16,  1629,  died  at 
Westover,  Va.,  April  23,  1671,  is  the  ancestor  of  the  Virginia  Blands.  He 
was  a  merchant  at  Luars,  Spain,  with  his  brother  Edward,  when  he  came 
to  Virginia  in  1654.  Here  he  purchased  and  settled  the  now  famous  James 
River  plantation,  "Westover,"  and  gave  for  the  use  of  the  county  and 
parish,  ten  acres  of  ground  on  which  he  had  built  a  courthouse,  prison, 
and  church,  known  as  "Westover  Church,"  in  the  chancel  of  which  he  is 
buried.  He  was  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  i6s9-'6i  ;  member 
of  the  Council  in  1665,  and  Campbell  and  Mead  say  that  "he  was  in 
fortune  and  understanding  inferior  to  none  in  the  colony."  He  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Col.  Richard  Bennett  of  Weyanoke  and  Kiccotan,  who 
was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  as  early  as  1629,  member  of  the 
Council  in  1639,  and  elected  Governor  by  the  House  in  1652.  Died  in  Vir- 
ginia in  1675.  Mrs.  Bland  died  at  Wharton  Creek,  Md.,  in  1687.  They 
had  issue:  Theodorick.  Jr.,  of  "Westover,"  member  of  the  Council,  died 
in  1702;  Richard  of  "Jordon's  Point,"  and  John.  Richard  Bland,  born  at 
Berkeley  in  1665.  died  at  Jordon's  Point,  April  6.  1720;  was  a  merchant 
and  planter,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1700-02,  and  '06.  etc. 
He  married  (1)  Mary,  daughter  of  Cob  Thomas  Swann  of  "Swanns 
Point,"  Surry  County,  and  had  issue  six  children,  all  of  whom,  Mr. 
Slaughter  says,  died  young;  (2)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col.  Wm.  Ran- 
dolph of  "Turkey  Island."  founder  of  the  distinguished  Randolph  family 
of  Virginia.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  R.  Bland  died  Jan.  22,  1719.  leaving  five 
children:  Mary,  married  Henry  Lee  of  "Lee  Hall,"  Westmoreland;  Eliza- 
beth married  Wm.  Beverley  of  "Blandfield,"  Essex ;  Richard,  Jr.,  of  "Jor- 
don's Point;"  Anne  married  Capt  Robt.  Munford ;  and  Theodorick  of 
"Cawsons"  and  "Kippax."  ancestor  of  John  Randolph  of  Roanoke. 

Richard  Bland  of  "Jordon's  Point,"  born  in  1710,  died  at  Williamsburg 
of  apoplexy,  Oct.  26,  1776,  where  he  was  in  attendance  as  a  member  of  the 
first  Legislature  of  Virginia  after  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  Camp- 
bell  says  of  him  :     "His   intellectual   calibre   was  capacious,   his   education 


Miss  Elizabeth  Bland  Knight. 
Capt.  John  Hughes  Knight. 
Poplar  Hill.  Price  Edward  County,  Va. 
Col.  John  Thornton  Knight. 


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finished,  his  habits  of  application  indefatigable.  Thoroughly  versed  in 
the  charters,  laws,  and  history  of  the  colony,  he  was  styled  the  Virginia 
Antiquary.  He  was  a  political  character  of  the  first  rank,  a  profound 
logician,  and  a  writer  perhaps  unsurpassed  in  the  colony."  He  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Peter  Poythress  of  "Fleur  de  Hundred,"  and  had  issue 
twelve  children,  one  of  whom,  Edward  Bland,  married  Eliza  Cocke  and 
had  a  son  John,  who  married  a  Miss  Jones,  who  were  the  parents  of  John 
Archer  Bland,  father  of  Mrs.  Cornelia  Bland  Knight.  See  Meade's  Old 
Families  and  Old  Churches,  and  Slaughter's  Hist-  of  Bristol  Parish. 

Capt.  and  Mrs.  John  H.  Knight  had  issue : 

143.  Elizahcth  Bland  Knight,  whose  wit  and  delightful  per- 
sonality. I  have  heen  told,  make  her  one  of  the  most  charming 
members  of  the  entire  connection. 

144.  Indiana  Knight,  married  Walter  Grey  Dunnington.  the 
largest  independent  tobacco  buyer  in  Virginia,  and  member  of 
a  fine  old  family  of  \ 'irginia  and  Maryland.  They  have  issue : 
Sallie  Everett,  married  Ashton  Clapham,  of  Loudoun  county,  a 
Washington  banker,  and  has  two  daughters,  India  Knight  and 
Sarah  Dunnington  ;  Lncie  Knight ;  James  William  :  Walter  Grey, 
Jr.:  and  John.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dunnington  live  at  "Poplar  Hill." 
Prince  Edward  county. 

145.  Lucie  Everett  Knight,  married  John  Blackwood  Strachan, 
of  Lynchburg,  son  of  Dr.  J.  B.  Strachan,  of  Petersburg,  and  con- 
nected with  the  Bannisters,  Boilings,  Meades,  and  other  well 
known  Virginia  families. 

146.  John  Thornton  Knight,  a  graduate  of  West  Point,  Lt. 
Col.  and  D.  O.  M.  G.  United  States  army.  Washington,  married 
Edith  Young,  daughter  of  Gen.  S.  B.  M.  Young.  U.  S.  A.,  re- 
tired. They  have  issue :  Alice  Margaret,  Sam  Young,  John  T., 
O'Ferrall  and  Alexander. 

147.  Emmett  Fitzgerald  Knight,  merchant  in  Colorado. 

148.  Mcllvaine  Knight,  member  of  the  Atlantic  Importing  Co., 
Xew  York.     Married  Ida  Fleming,  of  Farmville,  Ya. 

149.  Mattie  Knight,  died  in  infancy. 

150.  Mary  Cornelia  Knight,  died  in  early  life. 

151.  William  Barret  Knight,  Main  Division  Engineer,  Bos- 
ton and  Albany  R.  R..  married  a  Miss  Johnson,  of  Litchhfield. 
Mass.     No  issue. 

152.  Carter  Copeland  Knight,  dead. 


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Carters  of  Nottoway — Bacon  Branch. 

iiS.  Mary  Anne  Carter,  married  Dec.  19,  1817,  Col.  Lydall 
Bacon,  born  Dec.  26,  1793,  died  Jan.  23,  1875,  son  of  Drury  Al- 
len Bacon  and  his  second  wife,  Nancy  Aris  Jackson.  At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  war,  Col.  Bacon  was  the  second  wealthiest  planter 
in  Mecklenburg  county,  owning  some  fifteen  plantations  and 
about  a  hundred  and  fifty  servants,  valued  on  the  Assessor's  books 
at  half  a  million  dollars.    His  home  place  was  called  "Ten  Oaks." 

Bacon  Excursus. 

The  family  of  Bacon  in  England  is  said  to  date  back  to  the  Norman 
Conquest,  and  "of  this  name,  Bacon,  there  have  been  many  persons  of 
great  account  in  former  ages."  The  Virginia  family  is  descended  from 
Capt.  Edmund  Bacon,  born  in  England  circa  1641,  died  in  New  Kent 
County,  Va.,  Jan.  19,  1705.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  son  of  William 
Bacon,  and  a  cousin  of  Nathaniel  Bacon,  "The  Rebel,"  who  left  no  son, 
as  has  been  frequently  claimed,  to  hand  down  his  name.  This  William 
Bacon  may  have  been  the  William  Bacon,  gent.,  who  patented  land  in 
Northumberland  County,  Va.,  and  died  there  about  1660,  leaving  all  his 
property  to  wife  Margaret. 

Edmund  Bacon,  as  "Captain  Edmund  Bacon,"  patented  land  on  the 
Pamunkey,  in  New  Kent,  in  1687;  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  and 
High  Sheriff  of  New  Kent;  is  said  to  have  married  Anne  Lydall,  sup- 
posed to  have  been  the  daughter  of  Capt.  George  Lydall,  who  patented 
land  on  the  Pamunkey  in  1654,  commanded  a  fort  on  the  Mattaponi  in 
1679,  etc.  Capt.  Geo.  Lydall  was  a  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Lydall  and  his  wife 
Bridget  Woodward,  daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth  Honeywood  Wood- 
ward, and  therefore  maternally  a  cousin  of  Nathaniel  Bacon,  Sr.,  member 
of  the  Council,  Acting  Governor  of  Virginia,  etc.  Capt.  Edmund  and 
Anne  Lydall  Bacon  had  issue  a  son  John  Bacon,  vestryman,  sheriff,  etc., 
of  New  Kent,  married  (1)  Sarah  Langston,  who  died  Jan.  4,  1709,  leav- 
ing sons  Nathaniel  and  William;  (2)  July  4,  1710,  Susannah,  daughter  of 
John  Parkes,  and  had  issue:  John,  born  1711 ;  Sarah,  1712;  Lydall,  1717; 
Edmund,  1722;  Anne,  1727;  Frances,  1734.  Lydall  Bacon  married  in  1740 
Mary  Allen,  and  moved  from  New  Kent  to  Mecklenburg,  where  his  will 
was  probated  Oct.  12,  1775.  They  had  issue:  Eliabeth,  Lucy,  Langston, 
Anne,  Susannah,  Sarah,  Lydall,  Mary,  Edmund  Parke,  Richard,  and  Drury 
Allen,  born  Dec.  14,  1765,  died  Sept.  3,  1843,  in  Mecklenburg.  Drury  A. 
Bacon  married  second,  Dec.  16,  1792,  Mrs.  Nancy  Aris  Jackson,  daughter 
of  Frederick  Nance,  and  their  eldest  son  Lydall  married  Mary  Anne  Carter 


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in  1817.     The  Bacon  arms  are:  Arg.  on  a  fesse  engrailed  between  three 
escutcheons,  gules,  as  many  mullets  argent  pierced  sable. 

Lydall  and  Mary  A.  Carter  Bacon,  had  issue : 

153.  Nancy  Aris  M.  Bacon,  born  Oct.  29,  1818,  died  in  June, 
1856. 

154.  William  Allen  Bacon,  born  March  25,  1820,  died  June 
25,  1901. 

155.  Drury  Allen  Bacon,  born  July  14,  1821,  died  Nov.  8, 
1876. 

156.  Mildred  Haynie  Carter  Bacon,  born  Nov.  20,  1822,  died 
in  1823. 

157.  James  Lawrence  Bacon,  born  Feb.  6,  1824,  died  Feb.  12, 
1856. 

158.  Robert  Carter  Bacon,  born  July  20,  1825,  died  Feb.  8, 
1885. 

159.  Edmund  Cummings  Bacon,  born  Feb.  16,  1827,  died  April 
25,  i860. 

160.  Lydall  Bacon,  Jr.,  born  Dec.  27,  1830,  died  August  15, 
1843. 

161.  Virginia  Bacon,  born  March  20,  1828,  died  May  5,  1904. 

162.  Nathaniel  Bacon,  born  April  16,  1833,  died  August  29, 
1843. 

163.  Richard  Parkes  Bacon,  born  Dec.  25,  1834,  died  Oct.  10, 

1875- 

164.  Mary  Jane  Bacon,  born  May  20,  1838,  died  Sept.  4,  1889. 

165.  Josephus  Carter  Bacon,  born  April  1,  1840,  died  Feb.  18, 
1902. 

153.  Nancy  A.  Bacon,  married  in  June,  1846,  Capt.  John  R. 
Spencer,  and  lived  near  Clarksville,  Va.  They  had  issue :  Thomas 
Cole,  lived  in  Prince  Edward ;  Mary,  married  a  Mr.  Branch ;  Ed- 
mund, and  James.    The  last  three  moved  to  Texas. 

154.  William  A.  Bacon,  married  June  7,  1854,  Lucy  A.  Man- 
gum,  of  Mississippi,  and  has  issue:  Mary  Elizabeth,  married  a 
Mr.  Tilly,  of  Durham,  N.  C. ;  Virginia  M.,  married  Simon  Coz- 
art,  of  Oxford,  N.  C. ;  Kate  E.,  married  W.  Henry  Pettus,  a  to- 
bacconist, Chase  City,  Va.,  and  had  issue :     Henry,   Page,  and 


;S       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Catharine:  Roberta  B.  married  Dr.  H.  P.  Hardee,  Stern.  X.  C. ; 
May  married  and  died  in  Texas;  William,  a  farmer  in  X.  C. ; 
Frances  married  R.  P.  Freeze,  Newton,  XT.  C. :  Lydall. 

[58.  Robert  Carter  Bacon,  married  June  8,  1858.  Nancy 
Mathews  Fluke,  of  Monroe  county,  W.  Ya..  and  had  issue: 
Nathaniel  Bacon,  horn  May  11.  1864.  owner  of  the  ''Walnut  Hill 
Stock  Farm,"  Talcott,  W.  Va. ;  and  Mary  Jane  Bacon,  born 
Dec.  30.  1 807,  died  Jan.  22.  1896.  Robert  Carter  Bacon  was  a 
Confederate  quartermaster  in  West  Virginia. 

[59.  Edmund  Cummings  Bacon,  married  in  1854,  Mrs.  Ta- 
hitha  Tate,  of  Arkansas,  and  had  issue:  James  Lawrence.  Fran- 
cis Nathaniel  and  Virginia. 

161.  Virginia  Bacon,  married  Dec.  19,  1866,  W.  S.  Harris, 
of  Powhatan  county,  and  had  a  daughter,  Annie  M..  who  married 
H.  Bedford  Moseley,  of  Charlotte  county,  and  has  a  son,  Harris 
Bedford  Moseley.     Lives  at  Chase  City. 

164.  MARY  Jam;  Bacon,  married  in  Dec.  t86o,  James  Cun- 
ningham, and  had  a  son.  James,  who  died  unmarried.  She  mar- 
ried second,  in  Feb.,  1871.  Tyree  G.  Finch,  and  had  eight  children, 
all  of  whom  died  young,  except  Adam  Tyree  Finch,  now  a  prom- 
inent physician  of  Chase  City,  Ya..  who  married  a  Miss  Morton,  of 
Clarksville.  and  has  issue :  Mary  Elizabeth,  Margaret.  Tvree 
and  Adam,  Jr. 

165.  Josephus  Carter  Bacon,  and  his  brother,  Drury  Allen 
Bacon,  were  in  Gen.  Fitzhugh  Lee's  Cavalry  during  the  Avar. 
October  17.  1881,  J.  C.  Bacon  married  Lottie  H.  Lewis,  of  Green- 
ville, X.  C,  and  has  issue:  Mary  Eloise.  Lydall  and  Lottie  Lou, 
who  married  Nov.  1  =;.  1910,  Hugh  Belfield  Stewart.  Wilson, 
X.  C 

166.  Thomas  Alexander  Bacon,  served  in  the  Confederate 
Army  in  a  company  from  Lee  county.  In  Jan..  i860,  he  married 
1'attie  Farrar,  of  Chase  City,  and  had  issue:  Drury,  Nannie 
Gonde,  Virginia  and  four  other  children,  who  died  young. 


GENEALOGY  OE   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  79 

Carters  of  Nottoway — Oliver  Branch. 

119.  Jane  Carter,  married  Dec.  t8,  1819,  John  Billips  Oliver, 
a  Nottoway  planter  and  banker,  member  of  the  firm  of  Knight 
and  Oliver.  He  was  a  son  of  Richard  Oliver,  said  to  have  been 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Jennings,  daughter 
of  William  Jennings,  who  owned  ten  thousand  acres  of  land 
about  •'Jennings  Ordinary,"  Nottoway  county.  Richard  Oliver 
was  a  son  of  James  Oliver,  who  moved  to  Nottoway  from  Hen- 
rico about  1760.  James  Oliver  patented  two  thousand  acres 
of  land  in  each  of  the  counties  of  Nottoway,  Halifax  and  Meck- 
lenburg, and  had  seven  sons  in  the  Revolution,  six  of  whom 
came  out  alive. 

John   R.  and  Jane  Carter  Oliver  had  issue : 

167.  Charles  Haynie  Oliver,  married  a  Miss  Collier,  of  Mis- 
souri, and  had  a  son.  Collier  Oliver. 

168.  Lucy  Jane  Oliver,  married  Dr.  Richard  B.  Tuggle,  of 
Prince  Edward  county.  They  settled  at  "Ravenswood,"  an 
old  Carter  place  presented  to  Mrs.  Tuggle  by  her  father  as  a 
wedding  present.     Had  issue: 

169.  Susan  Lacy  Tuggle. 

170.  Richard  Wilfred  Tuggle. 

171.  John  B.  O.  Tuggle. 

172.  Indiana  Everett  Tuggle. 

173.  Camilla  Presley  Tuggle. 

169.  Susan  L.  Tuggle,  married  April  30,  1861,  Charles  Fred- 
erick Goodwyn.  of  Greenesville  county,  Ya.,  Commonwealth's 
Attorney  of  Dinwiddie,  and  judge  of  the  Nottoway  court  for  a 
number  of  years.  They  had  issue :  a.  Richard  T.  Goodwyn,  mar- 
ried Sallie  Brockenbrough  Aylett,  daughter  of  Col.  W.  R.  Avlett ; 
b.  Peterson  married  Emily  Lucas,  of  Texas,  and  has  daughter. 
Lillian  ;  c.  Lucy  Oliver  Goodwyn,  married  Landon  Jackson  and  has 
daughter,  Lucy  Goodwyn.  d.  Wirt  Goodwyn,  married  a  Miss 
Chandler,  of  Vermont,  and  has  four  daughters,  Yermona,  Rosa- 
mond, Camilla  and  Yirginia.  e.  John  B.  O.  Goodwyn,  unmar- 
ried, f.  Mary  Powell  Goodwyn,  married  Rev.  Christian  R. 
Kuyk.  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  and  has  sons,  Charles  Frederick 


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and  Dirk  Adrian,  g.  Wilfred  Lacy  Goodwyn,  married  Lydia 
Harris,  of  Richmond,  and  has  W.  L.,  Jr.  h.  Susan  Lacy  Good- 
wyn, died  unmarried,  i.  Indiana  Davies  Goodwyn,  married 
Sparrell  A.  Wood,  of  Floyd  county,  j.  Bettie  Harrison  Good- 
wyn, married  John  McSparran,  of  Lancaster  county,  Pa.,  and 
has  issue,  Sarah  Margaret  and  Lucy  Isabell.  k.  Lanetta  Mason 
Goodwyn,  married  Gordon  Gillete  Harris,  of  Culpeper  county. 

170.  Richard  W.  Tuggle,  a  tobacconist  at  Blackstone,  Va., 
near  which  he  owns  a  beautiful  county  home,  "The  Grove."    In 
Oct.,  1867,  married  Clara  M.  Vass,  daughter  of  James  Cummings 
Vass,  and  his  wife,  Eleanor  Hawkins  Smith.    For  a  number  of 
years  before  and  after  the  war  Mr.  Vass  was  cashier  of  the  old 
State  Bank  at  Richmond;  his  father,  James  Vass,  born  in  Fer- 
res,  Scotland,  died  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  in  1837.    R.  W.  &  C. 
V.  Tuggle  have  issue:     1.   Richard   B.  Tuggle,  tobacconist  at 
Farmville,  married  Martha  Nelson  Berkeley,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam R.  and  Martha  Nelson  Berkeley.    2.  Susie  Brooke  Tuggle, 
married   Maxwell   K.   Duncan,  a  tobacconist,   son   of  John  and 
Sallie  Branch  Duncan,  of  Petersburg.    3.  Florence  Lacy  Tuggle, 
married  Harry   Stanard   Beverley,  a   Blackstone  merchant,  son 
of  Robert  B.  and  Virginia  Eppes  Beverley,  and  have  one  child, 
Clara   Vass    Beverley.     4.  Eleanor   Thornton  Tuggle,    married 
R.  M.  O'Ferrall,  son  of  Gov.  O'Ferrall,  and  has  a  son,  McLain 
O'Ferrall.     5.   Lucy  L.   Tuggle,    married   Dr.   Richard  Adams 
Epes,  of  Blackstone,  and  has  a  daughter,  Lucy  Jane.     6.  Doug- 
lass Longstreet  Tuggle,  tobacconist  at  Blackstone,  married  Susie 
Armstrong,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sallie  Irby  Armstrong,  of 
Mississippi.     They  have  two  children,  Edward  Armstrong  and 
Clara  Brooke.     7.  John  B.  Tuggle,  representative  of  the  Rich- 
mond Paper  Co.,  at  Grand  Rapids,  N.  C,  married  (1)  a  Miss 
Moore,  and  has  son,  Richard  Welford;   (2)   Lucy  Lee  Joyner, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Francis  Joyner,  of  North  Carolina,  and  has  a 
son,    Robert    Thornton.      8.    Maria    Vass    Tuggle,    unmarried. 
9.  James  Wilfred  Tuggle,  unmarried. 

171.  John  B.  O.  Tuggle,  planter,  Nottoway  county,  married 
Lucy,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Virginia  Epes  Mason,  of  Surry 
county.     No  issue. 


Mrs.   Richard  B.   Tuggle, 
iv  c   Lucy  Jane   Oliver. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  8l 

172.  Indiana  Everett  Tuggle,  married  Samuel  D.  Davies, 
son  of  Dr.  John  B.  and  Maria  Swift  Davies,  of  Petersburg,  Va., 
and  great,  great  grandson  of  Rev.  Samuel  Davies,  second  presi- 
dent of  Princeton  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Virginia.  Mr.  Davies  was  an  attorney  and  opened  and 
conducted  for  four  years  the  first  law  course  given  at  Richmond 
College.     They  had  no  issue. 

173.  Camilla  Presley  Tuggle,  married  Robert  Grammer 
Thornton,  son  of  Richard  and  Priscilla  Grammer  Thornton,  of 
Halifax  county,  and  general  manager  of  the  Richmond  Paper 
Co.     They  have  no  issue. 

123.  Mildred  Hayne  Carter,  married  May  21,  1823,  Dr. 
Jacob  S.  Swann,  of  Kentucky,  and  had  several  children.  Their 
daughter,  Amanda,  married  George  Watt,  a  prominent  Rich- 
mond manufacturer.    No  other  data  of  this  family  furnished  me. 

124.  Ailcy  Bond  Carter,  married  May  21,  1827,  Dr.  Henry 
Farmer,  of  Owensboro,  Ky.,  and  had  issue:  Henry  Hugh,  born 
May  28,  1828;  Virginia  Carter,  Born  Sept.  14,  1829;  William 
Lodovick,  born  July  22,  183 1 ;  Mary  Sharpe,  born  April  5,  1833. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Farmer  died  when  their  children  were  quite  young 
and  they  were  placed  under  the  guardianship  of  their  uncle, 
Sharpe  Carter,  of  Nottoway,  Va.  After  their  return  to  Ken- 
tucky they  were  lost  sight  of  by  their  Virginia  connections. 

Carters  of  Hickory  Hill. 

125.  Sharpe  Carter,  of  "Hickory  Hill,"'  part  of  the  old 
Raleigh  Carter  plantation  in  Nottoway,  was  a  graduate  of  Hamp- 
den-Sidney.  July  24,  1832,  he  married  Martha  Anderson  Craig 
Gregory,  born  Feb.  10,  1808,  died  May  5,  1892,  daughter  of 
Richard  Claiborne  and  Frances  (Craig)  Gregory,  of  Lunenburg 
county.  Frances  Craig  Gregory  was  the  daughter  of  the  noted 
Rev.  James  Craig,  who  served  Hanover  Parish,  Lunenburg,  from 
1759  until  his  death  in  1795.  He  had  studied  medicine,  and  so 
doctored  the  bodies  of  his  parishoners  as  well  as  their  souls,  and 
prospered  in  worldly  goods  as  well  as  in  heavenly  riches.  Sharpe 
and  Martha  Carter  has  issue : 


82        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

174.  William  Richard  Carter,  born  April  22,  1833,  died  July 
8,  1864. 

175.  Isabelle  Carter,  born  July  29,  1835,  died  March  27,  1877. 

176.  Josephine  Carter,  born  Nov.  29,  1837. 

177.  Sophronia  Carter,  born  Jan.  26,  1841,  died  Jan.  29,  1843. 

174.  Wm.  R.  Carter,  was  graduated  from  Hampden-Sidney 
in  1852  with  the  highest  honors  in  his  class;  studied  law  and  was 
practicing  in  Richmond  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  when  he 
joined  the  Nottoway  cavalry  as  a  private  and  was  soon  made 
colonel  of  the  Third  Virginia  Regiment.  Early  in  1864  was 
commissioned  a  brigadier-general,  and  died  July  8,  1864,  from 
a  wound  received  at  Trevillian's.  He  was  noted  for  his  quick 
wit  and  repartee ;  an  aged  cousin  recalls  an  early  example  of  his 
quickness  at  retort.  While  attending  an  "old  field  school"  near 
his  home,  the  other  pupils  one  day  by  hinting  and  otherwise  tried  to 
make  him  stand  back  from  the  fire  and  give  them  the  best  places. 
Finally  one  of  them  said :  "You  might  as  well  assail  a  Tartar 
as  to  give  a  hint  to  Billy  Carter,"  to  which  Master  William  in- 
stantly replied :  "I  might  as  well  to  quit  this  school  as  to  take 
a  hint  from  every  fool."     He  was  unmarried. 

175.  Isabella  Carter,  married  May  26,  i860,  Joseph  Friend, 
born  April  23,  1819,  died  Feb.  2y,  1910,  of  "Green  Levels,"  Char- 
lotte county.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Gaines  Friend, 
and  grandson  of  Joseph  Friend,  who  patented  and  settled  the 
"Green  Level"  place  in  1767.  Mr.  Friend  was  a  prominent  citizen 
of  Charlotte  Co.,  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  etc.  By  his 
third  wife,  Isabella  Carter,  he  had  issue:  1.  Mary  Craig,  born 
in  1862,  died  in  1864.  2.  William  Sharpe  Friend,  an  insurance 
and  real  estate  agent  at  Covington,  Va.,  married  Emma  Hunt, 
of  Roanoke,  and  has  issue :  William  Berkeley,  Sallie  Cary,  Shir- 
ley Carter,  Mary  Bruce  and  Robert  Crenshaw.  3.  Isabella  Car- 
ter Friend,  married  Briscoe  Bouldin,  of  Charlotte  county,  now 
of  Greensboro,  N.  C,  and  has  issue :  Isabella  Carter  and  Thomas 
Vanderford.  4.  Josephine  Catharine  Friend,  who  has  a  finely 
cultivated  talent  for  music,  and  has  been  musical  director  of 
the  schools  at  Greensboro  for  a  number  of  years.     5.  Joseph  B. 


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Friend,  Jr.,  present  owner  of  "Green  Levels,"  married  Mary 
E.  Scott,  and  this  old  mansion  now  shelters  the  fifth  generation, 
in  his  children,  who  are :  Ruth  Elf  reth,  Carter  Watkins  and  Caro- 
line Scott. 

176.  Josephine  Carter,  married  (1)  Captain  David  Ritten- 
house  Stokes  of  "Mt.  Holly,"  Lunenburg  county,  September  27, 
1858.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war  he  owned  a  handsome  planta- 
tion and  about  a  hundred  servants.  Was  captain  of  the  Lunen- 
burg Infantry  during  the  war,  and  after  the  war  he  was  the 
first  treasurer  of  his  county  and  continued  in  the  office  until  his 
death,  Sept.  30,  1883. 

Stokes  Excursus. 

Captain  David  R.  Stokes  was  the  son  of  John  and  Susanna  Jones 
Stokes  and  grandson  of  Captain  Peter  Stokes,  born  Oct.  25,  1758,  died 
in  Feb.,  1828,  and  his  wife  Sarah  Smith,  sister  of  James  Smith,  who 
terresented  Lunenburg  county  in  the  Virginia  Assembly  for  a  number 
of  years.  Capt.  Peter  Stokes  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolution,  a  wealthy 
planter  and  brother  of  three  very  distinguished  men,  viz. :  David  Stokes, 
Jr.,  a  lawyer  of  great  ability,  colonel  in  the  Revolution,  etc. ;  John 
Stokes,  a  captain  in  the  Revolution,  United  States  judge  of  the  Western 
District  of  North  Carolina  and  law  preceptor  of  President  Andrew 
Jackson ;  Munford  Stokes,  United  States  Senator  from  North  Carolina 
and  Governor  of  that  State.  They  were  the  sons  of  David  Stokes,  born 
Oct.  23,  1707,  died  Sept.  12,  1794,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Mountford,  born 
Feb.  3,  1717,  died  April  9,  1800,  daughter  of  Col.  Thomas  Mouitford 
of  Old  Point  Comfort.  David  Stokes,  Sr.,  was  a  vestryman,  member  of 
the  first  court  of  Lunenburg,  1746,  etc.,  and  son  of  John  Stokes,  who 
had  patents  for  land  on  the  north  side  of  Nottoway  River  in  1701  and 
3723.  The  latter  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  i629-'30 
and  died  in  1646-  He  was  probably  of  the  Stokes  family  of  Stanhawes, 
Gloucestershire.     See  Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  Vol.  VI. 

November  26,  1890,  Mrs.  Josephine  Carter  Stokes,  married  William 
J.  Neb'ett,  of  "Brickland,"  Lunenburg  county,  son  of  Dr.  Sterling  Neblett 
and  nephew  of  the  famous  Richmond  lawyer,  W.  J.  McFarland,  who 
had  the  honor  of  entertaining  in  his  home — now  the  Westmoreland  Club 
— the  late  King  Edward,  when  he  visited  in  this  country  as  the  Prince 
of  Wales.  Col-  W.  J.  Neblett  was  a  lawyer,  planter  and  at  one  time 
represented  Lunenburg  in  the  Virginia  Assembly.  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Stokes   had   issue:      1.    Terry    Stokes,   born    September   5,    1859,    married 


84       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Nov.  14,  1883,  Annie  B.,  daughter  of  Maj.  Thomas  Bond,  of  Peters- 
burg, and  has  issue,  daughter,  Annie  Bond  Stokes.  2.  Martha  Craig 
Stokes,  born  Feb.  '19,  1863,  married  June  19,  1895,  Peyton  G.  McCabe 
of  Martinsville,  Va.,  a  cousin  of  Col.  Gordon  McCabe,  of  Richmond- 
and  the.  Graveleys  of  Lynchburg.  3.  Richard  Carter  Stokes,  born 
June  14,  1865,  manager  of  the  Geo.  W.  Helme  Tobacco  Co.,  Lynch- 
burg, .-named  Lillie  A.  Lee,  daughter  of  John  A.  and  Maria  Crockett 
Lee,  and  has  a  son,  R.  C.  Stokes,  Jr.,  born  April  14,  1895.  R.  C. 
Stokes,  Sr.,  is  a  colonel  on  Gov.  Mann's  staff.  4.  David  R.  Stokes, 
born  Sept.  6,  1866,  died  July  3,  1902,  unmarried.  Was  a  merchant  at 
South  Hill,  Va.  5.  Irby  Stokes,  born  May  9,  1869,  lives  at  the  old  Stokes 
home,  "Mt.  Holly,"  unmarried.  6.  Isabella  Overton  Stokes,  born  April 
29,  1871,  married  Nov.  26,  1904,  E.  H.  Conquest,  of  Oakhall,  Accomac 
county.  7.  Susan  Jones  Stokes,  born  Sept.  25,  1877,  married  Jan.  11, 
T899,  John  A.  Suiter,  merchant,  Garysburg,  N.  C,  and  has  issue :  John 
A.,  Jr.,  Florence  Carter  and  Overton  Stokes. 

Lee  Excursus. 

John  A.  Lee,  father  of  Mrs.  Richard  Carter  Stokes,  was  a  son  of  Bev- 
erley Lee  and  his  wife  Rebecca,  daughter  of  William  and  Ara  Noel  Lee  of 
Bedford  County.  William  Lee  served  in  the  Revolution  in  Capt.  Cobb's 
company  of  militia  from  Bedford  County,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Guil- 
ford C.  H. — See  Journal  and  Specie  Waste  Book  in  Auditor's  office  at 
Richmond,  Vols.  XV  and  XVI.  Beverley  Lee  was  a  son  of  Capt.  John  Lee, 
commissioned  Jan.  if  1777,  and  served  until  May,  1778,  as  captain  and  pay- 
master in  the  First  Virginia  Regiment. — See  records  in  U.  S.  Pension 
office.  After  the  Revolution  he  founded  Leesville,  Virginia,  where  he 
died  Jan.  1,  1819,  leaving  sons,  Henry,  Burwell,  Stephen,  John,  and  Bev- 
erley. Captain  Lee  is  said  to  have  been  a  member  of  the  great  Lee 
family  of  Westmoreland,  but  I  have  not  traced  the  connection. 

127.  Josephus  Carter,  M.  D.,  youngest  son  of  William  and 
Jane  Crenshaw  Carter,  was  graduated  from  Hampden-Sidney  in 
1841  and  from  a  medical  college  in  Philadelphia  in  1843,  and 
settled  in  Lunenburg  as  a  planter  and  physician.  His  daughter 
writes  that  he  saw  hard  service  as  an  officer  in  the  Confederate 
Army  under  General  Chalmer,  who  was  under  General  Forrest. 
December  19,  1838,  Dr.  Carter  married  Martha  A.  Stokes, 
daughter  of  Allen  Stokes,  and  had  a  daughter,  Mattie  Carter, 
born  in  1846,  who  married  Oct.  28,  1868,  Robert  Spencer,  son 
of  Colonel  Robert  Spencer,  of  "Aspen,"  Charlotte  county.    They 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  85 

have  issue:  Robert  S.,  Mattie  Carter,  Joseph  Carter,  Sallie 
Bouldin,  Thomas  E.,  Mamie  V.,  Isabell  F.  and  William  Sharpe 
Spencer — all  unmarried. 

After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  Dr.  Carter  removed  to  Panola 
county,  Mississippi,  where  he  married  in  1854  Emma  Jones  and 
had  issue  two  children:  William  Fanning  Carter,  born  1855, 
died  1908,  planter  and  clerk  of  the  county  court  for  a  number 
of  years ;  married  Lolie  Poitevant,  of  an  old  French  family  in 
New  Orleans,  and  had  issue :  Joseph,  Virginia  and  William. 
Katharine  Carter,  born  1858,  married  (1)  David  Craig,  (2)  a 
Mr.  Patterson. 

114.  Charles  Haynie  Carter,  born  in  1800,  son  of  Raleigh 
Carter,  Sr.,  by  his  second  wife,  Lucy  Anne  Crenshaw,  inherited 
old  Raleigh  Carter  plantation  in  Nottoway  and  was  quite 
wealthy.  He  married  (1)  his  cousin,  Mary  Carter  Coleman, 
of  Roanoke,  (2)  Mary  F.  Hatchett,  of  Lunenburg  county,  by 
whom  he  had  issue  two  sons,  Claude  Llewellen  and  Haynie 
Hatchett,  both  unmarried,  and  live  in  Blackstone.  By  the  first 
marriage  there  was  issue:  1.  Anne  B.  Carter,  married  Captain 
Ellsworth  Howsen,  a  first  cousin  of  General  Winfield  Scott. 
2.  Charles  Wesley  Carter,  married  his  first  cousin,  Nancy  Carter, 
and  had  issue :  Henry  Coleman,  Sallie  Hardaway,  Charles 
Oliver,  William,  Mattie  and  Raleigh.  3.  Rebecca  Carter,  mar- 
ried (1)  Armistead  Bruce,  (2)  Edward  Stokes.  4.  Mildred 
Carter,  married  Dr.  Robert  Hudson,  and  had  a  son,  Charles 
Hudson,  who  married  Jane  Vaughn  and  had  a  daughter,  Mildred 
Bruce  Hudson.  5.  Asa  Ofliver  Carter,  married  in  1867  Maria 
Sue  Crafton,  of  Prince  Edward  county,  and  had  issue :  a.  Mil- 
dred Haynie  Carter,  married  Charles  E.  Borum  and  has  issue: 
Elbert  Carter,  Charles  Haynie,  Florence,  William  Bernard,  Asa, 
Louise,  Robert,  Jeffres  and  Walter,  b.  Mary  Coleman  Carter, 
d.  s.  p.  c.  Charles  William  Carter,  married  Rosa  Hubbard  and 
has  issue:  Shirley,  Sharpe,  Hill  and  Catharine,  d.  Wrenne 
Carter,  d.  s.  p.  e.  Catharine  Carter,  d.  s.  p.  f.  Bernard  Hufft 
Carter,  g.  Clara  Vass  Carter,  d.  s.  p.  h.  Sallie  Oliver  Carter, 
married  Thomas  Whitehead,  an  attorney  and  stockman  of  Am- 


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herst  county  and  has  issue:  Asa  Carter  Whitehead  and  Kate 
Carter  Whitehead,  i.  Lucy  Ellsworth  Carter,  married  Wade  H. 
Mosby,  of  Lynchburg,  and  has  a  son,  Ellsworth  Carter  Mosby. 
6.  Thomas  Carter,  married  Sallie  Gilchrist,  of  Como,  Miss., 
where  he  is  a  professor  in  a  college.  They  have  issue:  Mary, 
married  William  Swope,  Annie,  Charles  and  William,  all  of 
Panola  county,  Miss.  7.  Katharine  Carter,  unmarried,  of  Black- 
stone,  Va. 


Mrs.   Peyton  McCabe, 

(nee  Martha   C.   Stokes). 

South  Hill.   Va. 


Descendants  of  Millicent  Carter  and 
Rev.  Charles  Cummings 

12.  Millicent  Carter,  daughter  of  "Thomas  Carter,  Gent.," 
of  Lancaster  county,  and  his  wife,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Aug-. 
9,  1743,  and  married  there  on  the  13th  Feb.,  1766,  Rev.  Charles 
Cummings,  a  prominent  minister  in  the  Presbyterian  church  in 
Colonial   Virginia. 

Rev.  Charles  Cummings,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Polk  Cum- 
mings, was  born  in  Denegal  county,  Ireland.  Through  the  in- 
fluence of  his  brother,  James,  who  was  the  captain  of  a  merchant 
vessel,  Charles  came  to  America  at  the  age  of  eighteen.  He 
entered  Carlisle  College,  Pa.,  from  which  he  was  graduated,  and 
then  went  to  Lancaster  county,  Va.,  where  he  was  employed  as  a 
tutor,  and  studied  theology  with  the  noted  preacher,  Rev.  James 
Waddell.  "The  Carters,  Gordons  and  others  in  that  congrega- 
tion were  in  the  habit  of  employing,  as  teachers,  young  gentlemen 
of  classical  education  from  the  mother  conutry.  A  number  of 
these  became  ministers  in  the  Presbyterian  Church." — Foote. 
xHe  was  licensed  to  preach  by  Hanover  Presbytery  at  Tinkling 
Spring,  April  17,  1766.  Oct.  15,  1766,  Rev.  Mr.  Cummings 
received  three  calls,  and  accepted  the  one  to  Maj.  Brown's  Meet- 
ing House  in  Augusta,  and  filled  it  until  June  2,  1772,  when  he 
accepted  a  call  from  the  congregations  of  Ebbing  Spring  and 
Sinking  Spring  on  Holston  in  Washington  countyj  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death  in  1812.  He  and  his  wife  are  buried  in 
the  Sinking  Spring  cemetery.  Foote  says  that :  "His  call  from 
the  Holston  was  signed  by  one  hundred  and  twenty  heads  of 
families,  all  respectable  men,  many  of  whom  afterwards  became 
distinguished ;  a  fact  as  remarkable  as  true." 

The  following  is  extracted  from  a  sketch  of  Rev.  Mr.  Cum- 
mings by  ex-Governor  Campbell :  "Having  accepted  the  call, 
he  removed  with  his  family,  purchased  land  in  the  neighborhood 
of  where  Abingdon  now  stands,  and  settled  upon  it.     His  first 


88       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

meeting  house  at  Sinking  Spring  was  a  very  large  cabin  of  un- 
hewn logs,  from  eighty  to  one  hundred  feet  long,  by  about  forty 
wide.  .  .  .  Mr.  Cummings  was  of  middle  statue,  about  five 
feet  ten  inches  high,  well  set  and  formed,  possessing  great  firm- 
ness and  dignity  of  character.  His  voice  was  strong  and  Had 
great  compass ;  his  articulation  was  clear  and  distinct.  Without 
apparent  effort  he  could  speak  to  be  heard  by  ten  thousand  people. 
His  mind  was  good  without  any  brilliancy.  He  understood  his 
system  well,  spoke  always  with  gravity,  and  required  it  from 
all  who  sat  under  the  sound  of  his  voice.  .  .  .  When  he 
came  to  Holston  he  was  about  forty  years  of  age. 

"At  this  time  the  Indians  were  very  troublesome,  and  continued 
to  be  for  several  years ;  and  generally  during  the  summer  months, 
the  families  for  safety  were  obliged  to  collect  together  in  forts. 
The  one  to  which  he  always  carried  his  family  was  on  the  land 
of  Captain  Jos.  Black  and  stood  on  the  first  knoll  on  the  knob  road 
south  of  Abingdon.  In  the  month  of  July,  1776,  when  his 
family  were  in  the  fort,  and  he  with  a  servant  and  wagon  and 
three  neighbors  were  going  to  his  farm,  the  party  were  attached 
by  Indians,  a  few  hundred  yards  from  the  meeting  house.  Cres- 
well,  who  was  driving  the  wagon,  was  killed  at  the  first  fire  of 
the  Indians,  and  during  the  skirmish  the  other  two  neighbors 
were  wounded.  Mr.  Cummings  and  his  servant  man,  Job,  both 
of  whom  were  well  armed,  drove  the  Indians  from  their  ambush, 
and  with  the  aid  of  some  men  from  the  fort,  who,  hearing  the 
fire,  came  to  their  relief,  brought  in  the  dead  and  wounded. 

"In  his  early  ministry  he  became  possessed  of  a  valuable 
library ;  and  appears  to  have  been  devoted  to  his  work  as  a  min- 
ister of  the  gospel.  ...  He  preached  for  many  years  and 
until  far  advanced  in  life  to  one  of  the  largest,  most  respectable 
and  most  intelligent  congregations  ever  assembled  in  western 
Virginia. 

"Mr.  Cummings  was  a  zealous  whig,  and  contributed  much 
to  kindle  the  patriotic  fire  which  blazed  forth  so  brilliantly  among 
the  people  of  the  Holston  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  He 
was  the  first  named  on  the  list  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  for 
Fincastle    county,    and    after    the    formation    of    Washington 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  89 

county,  1776,  he  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  of 
that  county,  and  took  an  active  part  in  all  its  measures.  Mr. 
Cummings  died  in  March,  181 2,  in  about  the  eightieth  year  of 
his  age,  leaving  many  and  most  respectable  descendants.  He 
was  a  sincere  and  exemplary  Christian,  and  a  John  Knox  in  his 
energy  and  zeal  in  support  of  his  own  church.  He  never  lost 
sight  of  his  object  and  always  marched  directly  up  to  it  with 
a  full  front.  He  performed  a  great  deal  of  missionary  labor  through 
an  extensive  district  of  country,  beyond  his  own  large  field.  The 
fruits  still  remain.  ...  In  the  expedition  against  the  Chero- 
kees  in  1776,  Mr.  Cummings  accompanied  the  forces  from  Hols- 
ton,  and  preached  at  the  different  stations  now  included  in  the 
State  of  Tennessee ;  and  in  this  way  was  the  first  minister  of 
the  gospel  in  that  State." 

Summers'  Southwest  Virginia  says  that  Mr.  Cummings  is  ac- 
credited with  the  honor  of  having  drafted  the  Fincastle  resolutions 
which  were  adopted  Jan.  20,  1775  ;  and  that  he  assisted  in  drafting 
the  petition  from  the  Hanover  Presbytery  to  the  General  As- 
sembly of  Virginia  asking  for  the  separation  of  the  Church  and 
State,  in  October,  1776. 

Rev.  Charles  and  Millicent  Carter  Cummings  had  issue: 

178.  John  Cummings,  born  August  24,  1767.     Never  married. 

179.  Thomas  Cummings,  born  Oct.  1,  1768.  Was  educated 
for  the  ministry,  but  died  young,  unmarried. 

180.  Sarah  Cummings,  born  March  15,  1770. 

181.  Mary  Cummings,  born  Dec.   15,  1771. 

182.  James  Cummings,  born  Nov.  9,  1773,  died  Aug.  1,  1840. 

183.  Charles  Cummings,  born  May  10,  1776.     Never  married. 

184.  Millicent  Cummings,  born  Jan.  2j,  1778. 

185.  Nancy  Cummings,  born  Nov.  30,  1779,  died  in  childhood. 

186.  Robert  Cummings,  born  May  16,  1781. 

187.  Elizabeth  Cummings,  born  April  16,  1783,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

188.  George  Cummings,  born  May  14,  1784,  died  in  infancy. 

189.  William  Cummings,  born  Oct.  7,  1788.     Never  married. 
As  the  descendants  of  Milly  Carter  Cummings  have  intermar- 
ried fourteen  times  with  the  distinguished  families  of  Campbell 


90 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


and  Preston.     I  will  give  brief  sketches  of  these  noted  families 
of  the  Old  Dominion  before  proceeding  further. 

Campbell  Excursus. 

The  printed  accounts  of  this  family  are  all  based  upon  that  prepared 
in  1851  by  Gov.  David  Campbell  of  Virginia.  John  Campbell  and  five  or 
six  grown  sons  and  several  daughters  emigrated  to  Lancaster  County, 
Pa-,  from  Ireland  in  1726,  and  a  few  years  later  removed  to  that  part  of 
Orange  County,  Va.,  which  in  1738  became  Augusta  County.  One  of 
these  sons,  David  Campbell,  married  in  Augusta,  Mary  Hamilton  and  had 
seven  sons  and  six  daughters,  all  of  whom  removed  to  the  head  waters  of 
the  Holston  in  i765-'7i  where  David  Campbell  owned  a  tract  of  land 
called  the  "Royal  Oak."  One  of  David  Campbell's  sons  was  the  dis- 
tinguished stateman  and  patriot,  Col.  Arthur  Campbell ;  another,  David, 
Jr.,  was  the  first  Federal  Judge,  and  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Tennessee.  Daughters  of  the  1st  and  6th  sons  married  sons  of 
Milly  Carter  Cummings. 

John  Campbell,  eldest  son  of  David,  born  in  1741,  received  a  good 
English  education.  In  1765  he  accompanied  Dr.  Walker  in  his  explora- 
tion and  purchased  the  "Royal  Oak"  tract  of  land.  He  was  a  lieutenant 
in  Wm.  Campbell's  company,  which  arrived  at  Point  Pleasant  too  late  for 
the  battle  fought  on  Oct.  io;  1774.  In  July,  1776,  he  was  second  in  com- 
mand at  the  battle  of  Long  Island  Flats  of  Holston,  which  resulted  in  a 
signal  victory  over  the  Indians.  In  October  of  same  year  he  commanded 
a  company  under  Col.  Christian  against  the  Cherokees,  and  up  until  1781 
saw  almost  continuous  military  service.  In  1778  John  Campbell  was  ap- 
pointed clerk  of  the  courts  of  Washington  County  and  held  the  office 
until  1824.  His  most  distinguished  son  was  David,  who  was  governor  of 
Virginia  i837-'4i.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth  McDonald,  and  their  daughter, 
Mary  Campbell,  married  James  Cummings,  son  of  Rev.  Charles  and  Milly 
C.  Cummings. 

Robert  Campbell,  6th  son  of  David,  born  in  1752,  was  a  volunteer  in 
the  expedition  of  1774,  and  a  member  of  his  brother  John's  company  at 
Long  Island  Flats  in  1776.  He  served  against  the  Cherokees,  and  in  1780 
was  an  ensign  under  Col.  Wm.  Campbell  at  King's  Mountain.  For  more 
than  tffirty  years  he  was  a  justice  of  the  Washington  County  Court.  In 
his  old  age  he  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  where  he 
died  in  1831.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature  for  four 
years.  He  married  Rebecca  McDonald,  sister  of  his  brother  John's  wife, 
and  daughter  of  Edward  McDonald  of  Botetourt  County,  who  was  killed 
by  Indians.  Their  daughter,  Mary  Campbell,  married  Robert  Cummings, 
5th  son  of  Rev.  Charles  Cummings. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  91 

Preston   Excursus- 

"Vieing  with  the  Randolphs,  Lees,  Harrisons,  Boilings,  Lewises,  Byrds, 
Berkeleys,  Campbells,  Russells,  and  many  other  notable  makers  of  Ameri- 
can history  in  Virginia  none  are  more  remarkably  connected  with  that 
history  than  the  family  of  Preston." 

The  emigrant,  John  Preston  (a  native  of  County  Derry,  Ireland),  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Patton  (a  native  of  County  Donegal,  Ireland),  their  chil- 
dren, William,  Lettice  and  Ann,  came  to  Augusta  County,  Va.,  about  1740 
with  Mrs.  Preston's  brother,  Col.  James  Patton,  Alexander  Breckinridge, 
and  many  others ;  and  in  May,  1746,  he  proved  their  importation  "at  his 
own  charge"  in  order  to  obtain  the  fifty  acres  of  land  allowed  for  each 
emigrant.  Mrs.  Preston  qualified  as  executrix  of  her  huband's  estate 
Feb.  6,  1747.  In  1843  Mrs.  Letitia  Floyd,  wife  of  the  first  Governor 
Floyd,  and  a  granddaughter  of  John  Preston,  wrote  an  account  of  the 
Preston  'family.  Mrs.  Floyd  says :  "Col.  James  Patton  had  four  sisters, 
two  of  whom  married  'men  of  quality'  in  the  old  country.  The  youngest 
sister,  Elizabeth,  while  crossing  the  river  Shannon  in  a  boat,  had  as  a 
fellow  passenger  a  young  man  of  striking  appearance,  who  proved  to  be 
a  ship  carpenter  named  John  Preston.  This  casual  interview  led  to  an 
acquaintance  and  a  runaway  marriage.  The  young  lady  thus  placed  her- 
self 'out  of  the  pale  of  her  family.'  "  "While  living  in  Augusta,  remote 
from  the  seaboard,  John  Preston  employed  himself  as  a  cabinet-maker, 
constructing  household  furniture  for  himself  and  neighbors." 

"John  Preston  appears  to  have  been  a  quiet  man,  and  without  the  bus- 
tling energy  which  characterized  other  pioneer  settlers ;  but  the  traits 
which  he  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  transmitted  to  their  posterity  is  a 
noble  testimony  that  the  pair  possessed  more  than  common  merit." 

William  Preston,  the  only  son  of  John  and  Eliabeth  Patton  Preston, 
was  born  in  the  town  of  Newton,  Ireland,  Nov.  25,  1729;  and  received 
most  of  his  education  from  Rev.  John  Craig  in  Augusta  County.  He  was 
deputy  sheriff  of  that  county,  clerk  of  the  vestry,  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses  in  i766-'68-'6o.  from  Augusta;  first  justice  of  the  Botetourt 
County  Court,  county  surveyor,  colonel  of  militia,  etc.  Between  1750 
and  1780  he  was  prominent  as  a  captain  of  rangers  in  the  Indian  wars, 
and  held  an  important  command  in  Southwest  Virginia  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. "His  official  papers  show  that  he  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
culture."  He  was  married  in  1761  to  Susannah,  daughter  of  Francis  and 
Elizabeth  Waddy  Smith  of  Hanover  County.  Col.  Preston  died  June  29, 
1783,  at  his  home  called  "Greenfield,"  leaving  five  sons  and  six  daughters. 
One  of  his  sons  was  a  governor  of  Virginia,  a  daughter  married  a  gov- 
ernor of  Virginia  and  was  the  mother  of  another  governor  of  the  State. 
Another  son  as  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Senate,  the  U-  S.  Congress,  a 


Q2  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Brig.-Gen.  in  War  1812,  married  a  daughter  of  Gen.  Wm.  Campbell  and 
niece  of  Patrick  Henry,  etc.  Another  son  was  a  major  in  War  1812,  mem- 
ber of  Virginia  Legislature,  married  a  daughter  of  Edmund  Randolph, 
Att'y  Gen.  of  the  U.  S.  in  Washington's  Cabinet,  governor  of  Virginia, 
etc.  Among  his  grandsons  and  grandsons-in-law  may  be  mentioned — Wm. 
C.  Preston,  U.  S.  Senator  from  South  Carolina,  one  of  the  foremost  orators 
and  statesmen  of  his  day;  John  S.  Preston,  member  of  the  S.  C.  Legis- 
lature, Brig.-Gen.  in  the  Confederate  Army;  Wm-  Preston,  member  of 
Congress  from  Ky.,  U.  S.  Minister  to  Spain,  Maj.-Gen.  C.  S.  A-,  etc;  Wm. 
B.  Preston,  Secretary  of  the  Navy  under  President  Taylor,  and  member 
of  the  Confederate  Congress ;  Gen.  Albert  Sidney  Johnson ;  Gen.  Wade 
Hampton ;  James  McDowell,  member  of  Congress  and  governor  of  Vir- 
ginia; John  B.  Floyd,  Secretary  of  War,  and  governor  of  Virginia;  Sena- 
tor Thomas  Hart  Benton  of  Missouri;  Thomas  F.  Marshall,  Alex.  K. 
Marshall,  and  Edward  C-  Marshall,  members  of  Congress  from  Kentucky 
and  California;  Thomas  L.  Crittenden,  Secretary  of  State  of  Kentucky; 
and  a  number  of  others  prominent  as  officers  in  the  Confederate  Army, 
members  of  their  State  Legislatures,  etc. 

Through  his  daughters,  John  Preston,  the  emigrant  was  the  grand- 
father of  John  Breckinridge,  U.  S.  Senator  from  Kentucky,  and  U.  S. 
Attorney  General  under  President  Jefferson ;  James  Breckinridge,  mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  Virginia ;  John  Brown,  U.  S.  Senator  from  Ken- 
tucky, etc. ;  and  James  Brown,  first  Secretary  of  State  of  Kentucky,  many 
years  U-  S.  Senator  from  Louisiana,  and  U.  S.  Minister  to  France;  and 
a  number  of  distinguished  professional  men  and  beautiful  women. 

180.  Sarah  Cummings,  born  in  1770,  married  John  Balfour, 
of  Scotland,  and  had  a  son,  Charles,  who  married  a  Miss  King, 
and  daughter,  Millicent,  who  married  James  Vance.  No  data  of 
descendants. 

181.  Mary  Cummings,  born  in  1771,  married  Michael  Swin- 
gle.   No  data  of  descendants. 

182.  James  Cummings,  born  in  1773,  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  Captain  John  and  Elizabeth  McDonald  Campbell,  of  Wash- 
ington county.  They  lived  at  the  old  Cummings  home  near 
Abingdon.  He  was  a  justice  of  the  Washington  county  court 
in  1803  and  sheriff  in  1827.    Issue: 

190.  John  Cummings,  married  Katharine  Lynch. 

191.  Elizabeth  Cummings,  married  Robt.  R.  Preston. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  93 

192.  Charles  Cummings,  married  Eliza  Gibson. 

193.  David  Cummings,  married  Eliza  White. 

194.  James  Cummings,  Jr.,  died  in  infancy. 

195.  Arthur  Campbell  Cummings,  married  Elizabeth  Preston. 

196.  Robert  Cummings,  d.  s.  p. 

191.  Elizabeth  Cummings  and  Robert  R.  Preston  had  issue: 
I.  Mary,  married  Joseph  Campbell  and  had  issue :  Mary,  Gar- 
nett  and  Robt.  R.,  who  married  Mary  Byrd  Trigg,  of  Abing- 
don; II.  Anne;  III.  Walter;  IV.  John;  V.  James,  died  infant; 
VI,  Arthur,  died  infant;  VII,  Campbell,  died  infant;  VIII, 
Amelia,  married  Robt.  A.  Preston  and  had  issue :  Sandy,  mar- 
ried Eiizauedi  Gordon,  Elizabeth,  married  Robt.  F.  Preston, 
Margaret,  Thomas,  married  Florence  Blair ;  Mary  and  Robert ; 
IX.  Thomas  Wilson,  married  Mary  Shelby  and  had  Issue :  Nelly 
Cummings,  Shelby,  Margaret,  Elizabeth  and  Miriam ;  X.  Eliza- 
beth, married  a  Mr.  Leyburn. 

192.  Charles  Cummings,  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  David 
Gibson,  of  Romney,  W.  Va.,  and  had  issue:  Campbell  who 
married  Sallie  White  and  has  a  daughter,  Bessie ;  and  David, 
who  married  Lucy  Clark.  Chas.  Cummings  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  Washington  county  in  1837. 

193.  David  Cummings,  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Colonel 
James  L.  White,  of  "Fruit  Hill,"  Abingdon,  Va.,  and  his  wife, 
Margaret  Preston,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  Preston  of  "Walnut 
Grove."  They  had  issue:  I.  James  Cummings,  married  (1) 
Elizabeth  Preston,  and  (2)  Mrs.  Frances  Clark,  nee  Summers, 
and  has  issue  Frances  and  Mary  Campbell.  II.  Robert  Cum- 
mings, married  Susan  Keller  and  has  a  son  Arthur.  III.  David 
Cummings,  Jr.,  born  June  23,  1861.  He  served  as  deputy  clerk  of 
Washington  county,  1882- 1887;  clerk,  1887- 1897;  commission- 
ed judge  of  the  Washington  county  court,  Feb.  1,  1897,  and 
recently  was  elected  State  Senator.  David  C.  Cummings,  Sr., 
was  deputy  clerk  of  the  courts  of  Washington  county,  1869-1871. 

195.  Arthur  Campbell  Cummings  was  born  at  old  Cum- 
mings home  about  three  miles  west  of  Abingdon,  Oct.  1,  1822. 


94        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

In  1841  he  was  appointed  a  cadet  at  the  V.  M.  I.,  from  which  in- 
stitution he  was  graduated  in  1844.     He  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Washington  county  in  1846.     Upon  the 
breaking  out  of  the   Mexican   War  he  raised  and  was  elected 
captain  of  two  volunteer  companies  under  the  call  for  volunteers 
by  the  United  States  government,  but  neither  was  called  into 
service.     In  March,  1847,  President  Polk  commissioned  him  a 
captain  of  Company  K,  nth  United  States  Infantry.    He  reached 
Vera  Cruz  July   1,  1847,  and  was  attached  with  his  company  to 
the  command  of  Major  Lally,  whose  troops  were  the  first  to 
begin  the  march  on  the  City  of  Mexico.    Captain  Cummings  was 
dangerously  wounded  in  an  engagement  at  Paso  Ovejas,  near 
the   National  bridge  leading  to  the   City  of  Mexico,  and   was 
made  brevet  major  for  gallant  conduct.     He  was  discharged  at 
Fort  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  Sept.   1,   1848.     Was  appointed  division 
inspector  of  the  Fifth  Division  October  22,  1849,  an^  colonel  of 
the  Fifth  Regiment  Artillery  (militia)  in  1858.    Upon  his  return 
home  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law.     In  May,  1861,  he  was 
commissioned   colonel   of  Virginia   Volunteers   and    ordered   to 
report  to  General  T.  J.  Jackson  at  Harper's  Ferry,  who  assigned 
him  to  the  command  of  the  2d  Regiment.    He  afterwards  organ- 
ized the  33rd  Regiment  and  was  assigned  to  its  command,  which 
became  a  part  of  the  famous  Stonewall  Brigade.    He  commanded 
this  regiment  at  the  first  battle  of  Manassas.    Col.  Cummings  was 
elected  to  the  Virginia  Legislature  in  1863,  1869  and  1871.     In 
1854  he  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Preston,  daughter  of  John  M. 
Preston,  of  Seven  Mile  Ford,  and  had  two  children— John   C. 
and  Nellie,  both  of  whom  died  unmarried. 

184.  Millicent  Carter  Cummings,  was  married  Dec.  10, 
1801,  to  John  Gibson,  born  Jan.  1,  1775,  at  Winchester,  Va.,  and 
died  at  his  home  near  Abingdon  Aug.  26,  1863.  He  was  a  justice 
of  Washington  county  court  in  1810  and  represented  the  county 
in  the  Virginia  Assembly  in  1837.  In  the  war  of  1812  he  held 
the  rank  of  captain.    They  had  issue  : 

197.  Sarah  Hopkins  Gibson,  married  Fairman  H.  Preston  in 
1825  and  had  a  daughter,  Anne  Amelia  Preston,  who  married 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  95 

David  Cummings,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  Campbell  Cummings 
and  had  issue :     Sarah,  Mary  and  Carter. 

198.  Millicent  Gibson,  never  married. 

199.  Jane  Gibson,  born  in  1814,  married  Rev.  James  McChain 
and  had  issue :     James  and  Amelia,  neither  of  whom  married. 

200.  Louisa  Gibson.     No  data. 

201.  Charles    Gibson,   married   Elizabeth   Campbell. 

202.  David  Gibson.  No   data. 

203.  Andrew  Gibson,  married  Sarah  Thurman  and  had  is- 
sue: Mary,  married  Benj.  Gildersleeve,  and  has  issue:  Virginia, 
married  E.  P.  Taylor ;  Mary,  not  married ;  Bessie,  married  Rev. 
T.  S.  Russell;  Nellie,  married  Leon  Kirby;  Benjamin;  Grace, 
not  married ;  and  Basil. 

204.  James  King  Gibson,  born  Feb.  18,  1812.  In  1834-1835 
he  was  deputy  sheriff  of  Washington  county;  was  a  merchant 
at  Abingdon  1835-1840;  post-master  at  Abingdon  (a  distributing 
office)  1 838- 1 849,  and  in  1849  was  appointed  teller  in  the  Abing- 
don branch  of  the  Exchange  Bank  of  Virginia,  which  position 
he  held  until  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1869  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  41st  United  States  Congress  and  served  until 
March,  1871.  He  died  March  30,  1879.  He  was  married  three 
times:  (1)  Anne  Campbell;  (2)  Mary  Jane  Gibson,  daughter 
of  David  and  Eliza  Armstrong  Gibson,  of  Romney,  W.  Va.  She 
was  born  in  1826  and  married  in  1847;  (3)  Eliza  Vance,  who 
bore  him  one  son,  Charles  C.  Gibson,  who  married  Eugenia  Pres- 
ton. He  had  no  issue  by  the  first  wife.  By  the  second  marriage 
there  were  three  daughters : 

Amelia  Carter  Gibson,  born  in  1848,  died  in  1864. 

Anne  Markee  Gibson,  born  in   1851,   died  in  1855. 

Eliza  Armstrong  Gibson,  born  in  1849,  married  in  February, 
1872,  Thomas  Wilson  White,  son  of  W.  Y.  C.  White  and  his 
wife,  Margaret  Jane  Greenway,  of  Abingdon,  and  brother  of 
Hon.  James  L.  White,  one  of  the  most  prominent  lawyers  in 
Southwest  Virginia,  whose  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Gov.  Wynd- 
ham  Robertson.  Thomas  Wilson  White  was  born  in  1846,  and 
while  a  student  at  the  Virginia  Military  Institute  entered  the 
Confederate  army  in  the  famous  cadet  corps  from  that  institu- 


96        GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

tion,  and  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  New  Market,  when 
seventeen  years  of  age.  This  wound  lamed  him  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.    Thomas  W.  and  Eliza  Gibson  White  had  issue: 

a.  Margaret,  born  in  1873,  married  in  1894  Arthur  Ponsonby 
Wilmer,  son  of  Frederick  Bradford  and  Louisa  Wilmer,  of  Eng- 
land. They  lived  in  Richmond,  Va.,  where  Mr.  Wilmer  is  the 
English  consul.  They  have  issue:  Thomas  Wilson,  Louise 
Gwendolen,  Eliza  Frances  and  Frederick  Ponsonby. 

b.  James  Gibson  White,  born  in  1875,  died  in  infancy. 

c.  Mary  Gibson  White,  born  in  1877,  married  in  1902  James 
Clark  Carpenter,  son  of  W.  A.  and  Ozella  Carpenter.  They 
have  issue:     Wm.  Alexander  and  James  Clark. 

d.  Sarah  Givin  White,  born  in  1880,  married  in  1909  Marvine 
Gorham,  son  of  George  and  Ella  Marvine  Gorham,  and  has  a 
daughter,  Elizabeth  Gibson. 

e.  Thomas  Wilson  White,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  of  Roda,  Va.  He  was 
married  in  1909  to  Lucy,  daughter  of  J.  G.  and  Lucy  Skelton. 

f.  Eliza  Wilson  white,  unmarried  . 

g.  Gilbert  Greenway  White,  unmarried. 

186.  Robert  Cummings,  born  May  16,  1781,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Robert  and  Rebecca  McDonald  Campbell. 
See  Campbell  Excursus. 

Robert  Cummings  was  commissioned  a  justice  of  the  Wash- 
ington county  court  Aug.  10,  181 1,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Assembly  in  1826- 1830.  In  1834  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  East  Tennessee,  where  he  purchased  a  farm  on  Clinch 
River  known  as  "Eagle  Bend."  Robert  and  Mary  Cummings  had 
issue : 

Eliza,  married  James  Strother. 

Sarah,  died  young. 

Campbell,  married  Sallie  Pickett. 

David,  married  Anne  Amelia  Preston  and  had  issue:  Sally, 
Mary  and  Carter. 

John,  married  a  Mrs.  Logan. 

Charles,  never  married 

James,  never  married 


Descendants  of  Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Jr., 

Second  Son  of  Captain  Thomas  and 

Catharine  Carter 


Carters,  Hopkins,  Hawleys,  Worths,  Browns,  Davis,  Stewarts, 
Whites,  Jelfs,  Lancasters,  Popes'  Linthicums  Aliens,  Rices, 
and  many  others,  of  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  Tennessee) 
Alabama,  Kentucky,  Texas,  Indiana,  and  other  states. 


Descendants  of  Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Jr. 

Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  second  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Katha- 
rine Dale  Carter,  born  "on  the  4th  day  of  June  1672  betwn  3 
&  4  aclock  in  ye  Morn5  and  was  Baptzd  att  ye  new  Church  Aug1 
5th.  Capt :  John  Lee — Mr  Th :  Hayne  ye  Lady  Ann  Skipworth  & 
Elizth  Dale  god  par18.",  inherited  after  his  mother's  death  "Bar- 
ford,"  the  Carter  home  on  Corotoman  River,  where  he  died  the 
last  of  September,  1733.  He  appears  first  in  the  Lancaster 
records  in  1686  when  "Tho:  Carter  Junr"  was  a  witness  to  a 
power  of  Attorney  given  by  Wm.  Robinson,  of  Belfast,  Ireland, 
then  in  Virginia,  to  "my  trusty  and  well  beloved  friend  Mr. 
Thomas  Carter  of  Corotoman  in  the  County  of  Lancaster  and 
Colony  of  Virginia."  In  1696  he  paid  taxes  on  four  persons; 
July  12,  1699,  was  appointed  attorney  for  James  Corneline ;  in 
1700  probated  his  father's  will  and  is  mentioned  in  the  probate 
as  the  second  son.  Dec.  12,  1705,  he  took  the  oath  as  a  Justice 
of  Lancaster  court  and  served  continuously  from  that  date  until 
May  14,  1729,  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century,  on  the  county  bench. 
Serving  with  such  men  as  Col.  Robert  Carter,  Capt.  William 
Ball,  Richard  Chichester,  Henry  Fleet,  Thomas  Lee  and  John 
Turberville.  April  7,  171 1,  he  was  commissioned  by  Governor 
Spotswood  a  captain  in  the  Lancaster  militia ;  his  original  com- 
mission has  been  preserved  by  the  family.  Besides  being  a 
planter  he  was  also  a  merchant,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
connected  with  "King"  Carter  of  Corotoman  in  the  mercantile 
business.  "King"  Carter  spoke  of  him  in  his  will  in  very  high 
terms,  as  follows :  "Whereas  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  hath  gone 
through  a  series  of  Business  for  me  several  years  together  in 
selling  divers  cargoes  of  Goods  and  upon  other  accounts,  of 
whose  honesty  and  integrity  I  have  always  had  a  very  good 
opinion.  It  is  my  will  that  such  accounts  of  my  affairs  as  he 
can  make  up,  be  received  as  satisfactory  from  him  by  my  Ex'tors, 
and  he  be  to  no  trouble  at  law  upon  my  account."  He  also  directs 
that  all  his  "selling  goods"  coming  in  by  that  shipping  be  de- 


Capt.    Thomas    Carter,    Jr. 
(Born   1672,  died   1733). 


Said  to  be  old  Capt.  Thomas   Carter  House — "Barford. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY-  99 

livered  to  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  to  be  disposed  of  by  him  with 
the  goods  already  under  Bis  care.  After  appointing  his  three 
older  sons  his  executors  he  continued,  "And  I  do  request,  con- 
stitute, and  appoint  &  make  my  Hon'ble  &  good  friends  &  rela- 
tions Mann  Page,  Esq.,  of  Gloucester  Co.,  Maj.  Benj.  Harrison 
of  Charles  City  County,  Maj.  George  Eskridge  &  Capt.  George 
Turberville  of  Westmoreland  County,  Mr.  Richard  Lee  of 
Northumberland  County,  &  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  of  Lancaster 
Co.,  to  be  assistant  to  my  executors  &  to  be  consulted  and  ad- 
vised with  upon  all  occasions."  After  dividing  certain  parts  of 
his  wearing  apparel,  as  was  the  custom  of  those  days,  among 
his  three  older  sons,  he  directs  "&  my  other  clothes  I  would 
have  some  given  to  my  good  friends  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  &  Mr. 
John  Turberville." 

Besides  the  land  inherited  from  his  father,  Capt.  Thomas 
Carter,  Jr.,  had  grants  between  the  years  1700  and  1722  for 
1023  acres  in  various  Northern  Neck  counties,  and  in  1712  a 
grant  for  2,400  acres  in  Stafford.  This  latter  grant,  however, 
he  seems  to  have  disposed  of  before  his  death,  but  as  the  Staf- 
ford records  for  this  period  are  gone,  no  record  of  it  can  be  found. 
Sep.  12,  1706,  he  purchased  lot  No.  88  in  Queenstoivn,  Lancas- 
ter county.  It  was  the  second  lot  from  Anne  Street  and  lay  be- 
tween Duke  and  Fairfax  Streets.  Aug.  6,  1720,  "Thomas  Carter, 
Gent."  had  a  deed  from  "John  Cook  Butcher"  for  twenty  acres 
of  land  adjoining  land  of  Edward  and  Henry  Carter  in  Christ 
Church  parish.  If  the  old  Christ  Church  Vestry  Book  could  be 
found  for  that  period  in  which  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  lived  in 
Lancaster,  I  am  sure  it  would  show  that  he  was  a  vestryman  of 
that  parish,  for  few  men  of  his  station  at  that  time  but  were 
members  of  the  vestry,  and  his  two  brothers  who  were  living  in 
the  period  covered  by  the  vestry  book  now  in  existence  were  both 
vestrymen,  as  well  as  his  son  Dale,  and  his  grandson  Daniel. 

Among  the  papers  of  the  late  Col.  Thomas  Carter,  of  near 
Williamsburg,  Ky.,  was  found  a  faded  photograph  of  an  old  por- 
trait, and  on  the  back  was  written,  "Portrait  of  Thomas  Carter, 
2nd.,  Lancaster,  Va."  No  mention  is  made  in  the  inventory  of 
personal  estate  of  Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  of  a  portrait  of  him- 


IOO       GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

self,  but  he  probably  had  presented  it  to  one  of  his  sons  prior 
to  his  death. 

"Tho :  Carter  Junr  &  Arabella  William800  was  Mard  ye  22d  Aug1. 
1695."  (Prayer  Book).  His  wife  probably  was  a  daughter  of 
William  Williamson,  son  of  James  Williamson,  of  Rappahan- 
nock county,  and  a  niece  of  Margaret  Williamson,  who  married 
Capt.  William  Ball,  Jr.,  prior  to  1673.  The  descendants  of  Capt. 
Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  and  Capt.  Wm.  Ball,  Jr.,  have  handed  down 
the  baptismal  names  of  Jesse,  Jeduthan,  Williamson,  Margaret 
and  Arabella,  which  doubtless  all  came  originally  from  the  Wil- 
liamsons. As  Rev.  Mr.  Hayden  in  his  genealogy  of  the  Ball 
family  does  not  mention  the  use  of  the  name  of  Arabella  by  that 
family,  I  will  give  here  an  example  of  it  I  found  recently  in  a 
genealogy  of  the  Ball  and  Hogg  families,  published  in  The 
State  Gazette,  Point  Pleasant,  West  Va.  "Julia  Ann  Hogg  (1 
Peter,  2  Peter)  married  Aug.  21,  1828,  Thomas  Ball,  son  of 
James  Ball  and  Lucy  Hardin  his  wife  of  Virginia  (early  emi- 
grants to  Mason  County)  Rev.  Wm.  George  officiating.  To  this 
union  were  born:  (1)  Lewis  Ball,  unmarried.  (2)  Robert  Ball, 
married  Mary  Ann  Somerville.  (3)  Mary  Matilda  Ball,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Somerville.  (4)  Frances  Ball,  married  James  Som- 
erville. (5)  Patsy  Ball,  married  James  Rice.  (6)  Lavenia  Ball, 
married  Green  Somerville.  (7)  Arabella  Ball,  married  Jackson 
Shirley.     (8)  Maria  Ball,  married  James  Rayburn,  etc.,  etc." 

Williamson  and  Underwood  Excursus. 

In  the  seventeenth  century  there  were  several  Williamson  families,  in 
Virginia  of  more  or  less  prominence  in  the  counties  of  Henrico,  Surry, 
Isle  of  Wight,  York,  and  Rappahannock,  of  whom  isolated  notes  have 
appeared  from  time  to  time  in  various  historical  and  genealogical  publi- 
cations. The  family  of  particular  interest  here,  and  one  of  the  more 
prominent  ones  seems  to  have  become  extinct  in  the  male  line  with  the 
death  of  Henry  Williamson  of  Essex  County  in  1699. 

A  writer  in  the  Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  Vol.  VI.,  saays  that  "The 
first  Williamsons  in  Virginia  settled  in  Surry,  opposite  Jamestown,  nam- 
ing the  estate  'Cobham  Hall'  after  Cobham  Hall,  Kent,  England,  the  seat 
of  the  English  Williamsons,  and  thence  they  spread  over  Virginia  and 
North  Carolina."  Probably  from  this  family  came  Dr.  Robert  William- 
son, who  was  Burgess  in  1663  from  the  adjoining  county  of  Isle  of  Wight, 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  ioi 

where  he  had  grants  for  3,850  acres  of  land  in  1666;  and  also  Mr.  James 
Williamson  (who  doubtless  was  a  brother  of  Dr.  Robert),  a  Justice  of 
the  Isle  of  Wight  court  in  1646,  et  seq.  This  Mr.  James  Williamson  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  family  of  interest  here.  He  married  Anne  Underwood, 
sister  of  Col.  Wm.  Underwood,  who  died  in  Rappahannock  County  in 
1662,  and  daughter  of  Mrs.  Margaret  Underwood,  who  married  (2)  Capt. 
John  Upton,  a  Justice  of  Isle  of  Wight  in  1627,  '31,  '32;  Burgess  in  1630, 
'32,  33  '39,  '45  and  '47;  and  "Mint  Master  General"  of  Virginia  in  1645; 
died  in  1652.  In  1657,  Mrs.  Margaret  Underwood  Upton  took  a  third 
husband  in  the  person  of  Mr.  Thomas  Lucas,  Sr.,  of  Rappahannock,  a 
Justice  of  that  county  in  1657,  Burgess  in  1658,  died  in  1673.  Marriage 
contract  dated  in  April,  1657. 

Capt.  John  Upton  in  his  will,  prob.  Isle  of  Wight  County,  Dec.  16, 
1652,  left  his  land  on  the  north  side  of  Rappahannock  River  to  his  step- 
daughters Elizabeth,  Sarah,  and  Margaret  Underwood,  and  Anne  Under- 
wood, now  tne  wife  of  Mr.  James  Williamson.  Also  gave  them  1,500  acres 
in  Isle  of  Wight  County,  and  likewise  850  acres  if  his  son  John  Upton 
died  before  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.  About  this  time  the 
Williamsons,  Underwoods,  and  their  mother,  Mrs.  Upton,  removed  to  the 
Rappahannock  land,  lying  in  that  part  of  Lancaster  County,  that  in  Dec, 
1656,  became  Rappahannock  County,  and  in  1692  Richmond  County.  In 
addition  to  this  land,  James  Williamson  had  patents  as  follows :  May  22, 
1650,  1,150  acres;  May  gf  1651,  720  acres;  and  May  22,  1651,  1,800  acres, 
on  the  last  of  which  he  settled,  as  is  shown  by  a  deed  in  Essex  County 
made  Dec.  1,  1697  by  Wm.  and  Anne  Tomlin  for  700  acres  of  land  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Rappahannock,  ''where  Mr.  James  Williamson  formerly 
lived,  and  which  was  a  part  of  a  tract  of  1800  acres  granted  to  him  on 
May  22,  1 65 1. 

In  Jan.,  1652,  Mr.  James  Williamson  was  a  Justice  of  the  Lancaster 
court,  and  probably  continued  as  such  until  his  death  in  1656;  and  in  1654 
he  paid  taxes  on  seven  persons.  A  statement  in  the  Lancaster  court 
records,  Dec.  8,  1656,  shows  that  "Mr.  James  Williamson  late  of  this 
county,  died  intestate  and  administration  was  granted  in  behalf  of  the 
orphans  to  Mr.  William  Underwood,  who  was  uncle  to  said  orphans  on 
the  Mother's  side."  The  record  fails  to  name  the  orphans,  but  deeds  in 
old  Rappahannock  records  show  that  three  of  them  were  William,  Mar- 
garet, and  Mary,  and  I  think  it  very  probable  that  Henry  Williamson  of 
Rappahannock,  who  died  in  1699,  was  another  son  of  James  Williamson, 
and  shall  treat  him  as  such  in  this  account.  Rappahannock  being  cut  off 
from  Lancaster  in  Dec,  1656,  James  Williamson's  Inventory  of  personal 
estate  was  recorded  in  that  county.  It  amounted  to  £330  besides  38,530 
pounds  of  tobacco,   and  included   "a   small   parcell   of  bookes"   at   fifteen 


102       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

shillings.  He  was  in  addition  to  being  a  planter  a  merchant,  as  is  shown 
in  a  case  in  Baradall's  Reports,  which  recites  that  "Wm.  Ball,  Jr.,  was  a 
grandson  and  a  heir  of  the  mortgagor,  James  Williamson,  Merchant,  re- 
siding in  Virginia,  who  mortgaged  an  estate  in  England  by  deeds  dated 
19th  &  20th  Nov.,  1655." 

James  Williamson  was  a  friend  of  John  Hammond,  the  author  of  the 
celebrated  tract  r'Leah  &  Rachel" — an  account  of  Virginia  and  Maryland 
about  1650,  and  which  the  author  dedicated  to  him.  In  1662  William 
Underwood  gave  to  his  nieces  Margaret  and  Mary  Williamson  a  tract  of 
882  acres  patented  by  him  in  1658.  Of  the  children  of  James  and  Anne 
Williamson  I  have  the  following:  Margaret  married  prior  to  March,  1671, 
Capt.  Wm.  Ball,  Jr.,  of  Lancaster;  Mary  married  prior  to  March,  1673, 
John  Rosier,  Gent.,  of  Westmoreland ;  and  William  died  prior  to  1673, 
leaving  daughters  Margaret  and  Arabella,  of  whom  later ;  and  Henry  died 
in  1699,  leaving  daughters  Elizabeth,  Katharine,  and  Frances. 

Mar.  7,  1671,  William  Moseley  delivered  to  Mr.  Wm.  Ball,  Jr.,  Mr. 
James  Williamson's  patent  for  1,800  acres  of  land  dated  22  May,  1651,  and 
the  Underwood  patent  to  Margaret  and  Mary  Williamson  for  882  acres, 
dated  March  11,  1662.  March  20,  1673,  Capt.  Wm.  Ball,  Gent.,  and  Mar- 
garet his  wife,  a  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Mr.  James  Williamson,  and  An- 
thony Bridges  of  Westmoreland,  attorney  for  John  Rosier,  Gent.,  of  West- 
moreland, and  Mary  his  wife,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  James  Williamson, 
sold  to  Charles  Dacres,  Clerke  (Minister)  of  Westmoreland,  450  acres, 
part  of  a  patent  for  1,800  acres  granted  to  Mr.  James  Williamson,  dec'd, 
etc.  They  guaranteed  title  against  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  William 
Williamson,  also  dec'd. 

The  Ball  family  has  an  original  deed  from  Archdale  and  Elizabeth 
Combe,  of  Rappahannock  County,  dated  Nov.  2,  1675,  releasing  her  dower 
in  a  tract  of  882  acres  of  land  given  by  her  former  husband,  Maj.  Wm. 
Underwood  to  his  nieces,  Margaret  and  Mary  Williamson.  This  deed 
bears  a  seal  showing  the  following  crest :  "A  pelican  feeding  her  young," 
encircled  by  the  motto,  "Sic  bis  quos  diligo."  Rev.  Mr.  Hayden  says  that 
works  on  heraldry  give  this  as  the  crest  of  the  Norris  family  of  Scotland. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Underwood  Combe,  may  have  been  a  Norris,  and  thus  had 
the  seal,  or  it  may  have  belonged  to  some  bystander.  There  was  a  Norris 
family  in  Lancaster.  For  descendants  of  Margaret  Williamson  Ball  see 
"Virginia  Genealogies,"  by  Rev.  Horace  Hayden.  There  is  no  printed 
account  of  the  Rosiers,  but  the  Westmoreland  records  doubtless  would 
give  wills  and  deeds  of  this  family.  John  Rosier,  husband  of  Mary  Wil- 
liamson, was  a  son  of  John  Rosier,  minister,  of  Northampton  County,  who 
married  Elizabeth  daughter  of  John  Hillier  of  Maryland,  and  died  leaving 
a  son  John,  Jr.  His  widow,  Elizabeth,  afterward  married  Anthony  Bridges, 
clerk  of  Westmoreland  County. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  103 

William  Williamson,  son  of  James  and  Ann  Underwood  Williamson, 
had  a  grant  of  200  acres  of  land  in  Rappahannock  County,  March  18, 
1663,  and  Feb.  27,  1667,  "William  Williamson  of  the  county  of  Rappa 
Planter"  leased  it  to  John  Webb,  who  was  to  build  a  house,  plant  an  or- 
chard, etc.  In  March,  1673,  he  is  spoken  of  as  dead.  And  at  a  court  held 
in  Rappahannock  County,  June  4,  1684,  "Mr.  Henry  Williamson  exhibited 
an  account  as  Guardian  of  Marg1  &  Arabella  Williamson  orphan  Daugh- 
ters of  Mr.  Win.  Williamson  dec'd  which  was  Examd  and  made  oathe  to 
by  him  &  Ordered  recorded  &  vouchers  filed."  This  Arabella  Williamson 
I  take  to  be  the  one  who  married  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  in  1692.  Her 
mother  may  have  been  a  Miss  White  of  Rappahannock  County,  as  Ara- 
bella was  a  baptismal  name  in  that  family. 

Henry  Williamson  was  a  justice  of  Rappahannock  in  1680,  et  seq., 
and  in  1692  was  Presiding  Justice.  At  the  April  court,  1684,  Mr.  Henry 
Williamson  was  paid  for  the  services  of  a  man  and  horse  impressed  for  five 
days  in  bringing  down  corn  and  lumber  belonging  to  the  Rappa  Indians 
from  their  fort  to  the  River  side.  At  the  same  court  "Mr.  Henry  Wil- 
liamson Did  this  day  in  open  Court  produce  fiftysix  Ells  of  Linen  Cloath 
three  quarters  wide  And  Made  Oath  that  the  same  was  of  his  own 
Growth  and  Manufacture  where  upon  this  Court  Ordered  that  Certificates 
thereof  be  Returned  to  the  Next  honelable  Assembly." 

Henry  Williamson  was  married  twice.  First  to  a  daughter  of  Richard 
Loes,  who  was  a  Justice  of  the  Lancaster  court,  i6s2-'s6,  and  of  the  first 
court  of  Rappahannock  in  Dec,  1656,  and  captain  of  militia.  In  his  will, 
prob.  July  7,  1675,  he  left  all  his  land  on  Rappahannock  and  personal 
estate  to  son-in-law,  Henry  Williamson.  Henry  Williamson  married  sec- 
ond, Catharine  Weekes,  daughter  of  Abraham  Weekes,  vestryman  of  Lan- 
caster in  1657,  Justice  in  1666,  and  later  Justice  of  Middlesex  court.  In 
1688  Abraham  and  Milicent  Weekes  of  Middlesex,  conveyed  to  Mr.  Henry 
Williamson  of  Rappahannock  County,  and  his  wife  Catharine,  their  daugh- 
ter a  tract  of  land,  the  other  half  of  which  they  had  deeded  to  their  son 
Francis  Weekes. 

March  30,  1699,  "Henry  Williamson  of  ye  County  of  Essex  in  ye  Colony 
of  Virginia  Gen1."  made  his  will,  prob.  Sept.  11,  same  year.  He  gave  to 
each  of  his  three  daughters — Elizabeth,  Katharine  and  Frances,  ten  negroes 
and  several  hundred  acres  of  land,  besides  other  property.  The  probate 
shows  that  Elizabeth  Williamson  had  married  Thomas  Meriwether  be- 
tween the  making  and  filing  of  the  will. 

In  Rappahannock  County  contemporaneous  with  James  Williamson 
and  his  children,  there  was  another  family  of  Williamson,  who  evidently 
were  of  a  different  social  class,  judging  by  the  fact  that  without  excep- 
tion all  of  them  from  the  midlle  of  the  17th  century  to  the  19th  made 
their  marks   in    signing  their   wills   and   deeds.     The   first   of   these   was 


104 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


Thomas  Williamson,  who  with  Evan  Davis  had  a  grant  for  900  acres  in 
1663-  He  seems  to  have  come  from  York  County.  In  1669  Thomas  X 
Williamson,  Sr.,  deeded  land  belonging  to  wife  Katharine's  former  hus- 
band, Richard  Hubbell ;  and  in  1671  he  deeded  land  to  children  of  son 
Thomas  Williamson.  The  Essex  records  show  the  following  wills  of  this 
family:  James  X  Williamson,  1717 ;  Joana  X  Williamson,  deed  as  exec- 
of  father,  John  Williamson,  dec'd,  1716;  John  X  Williamson,  1742;  Wm. 
X  Williamson,  1742;  Edward  X  Williamson,  1748;  Thos.  X  Williamson, 
1765;  Wm.  X  Williamson,  1775;  Alice  X  Williamson,  1800;  Thomas  X 
Williamson,  1802;  Wm.  X  Williamson,  1804;  and  across  the  river  in  Rich- 
mond County,  Jonah  X  Williamson,  deed,  in  1707. 

Of  the  sisters  and  brother  of  Anne  Underwood  Williamson:  Elizabeth 
Underwood  married  (1)  Capt.  Francis  Slaughter  of  Rappahannock  County, 
a  merchant,  justice  of  Rappahannock  in  1656;  and  died  in  that  year  leaving 
a  son  Francis,  Jr.  (2)  Col.  John  Catlett  in  1657.  He  was  presiding  jus- 
tice of  Rappahannock  in  1665,  and  was  killed  by  the  Indians  while  de- 
fending a  frontier  fort  near  Port  Royall  in  1670.  Col.  Catlett  was  very 
wealthy.  They  had  issue, — John,  William,  Thomas,  Margaret,  Sarah,  and 
Elizabeth.  Like  her  mother,  Elizabeth  Underwood  took  unto  herself  a 
third  husband  in  the  person  of  Rev.  Amory  Butler,  by  whom  she  had  no 
issue.  Margaret  Underwood  married  about  i65S-'s6  Humphrey  Booth,  a 
merchant  who  came  to  Lancaster  from  London  in  1653.  He  was  a  justice 
of  the  first  court  of  Rappahannock  in  Dec,  1656,  etc.  They  had  issue, 
Grace  and  Catharine,  one  of  whom  married  Robert  Brooke,  and  a  son 
Humphrey  Booth,  Jr.  Sarah  Underwood  married  a  Mr.  Pierce,  probably 
Maj.  Wm.  Pierce  of  Westmoreland,  who  had  a  wife  Sarah  in  1668.  He 
was  a  justice  of  that  county  in  1668,  and  died  in  1702.  William  Under- 
wood, only  brother  of  Anne  Williamson,  was  a  merchant  and  planter  in 
Rappahannock  County,  Burgess  from  that  county  in  1652,  a  justice  of  the 
first  court  in  1656,  justice  of  Lancaster  in  1652  before  Rappahannock  was 
formed,  etc.,  etc.    Died  in  1662,  leaving  a  son  William,  Jr. 

April  24,  1728,  "Thomas  Carter  of  the  County  of  Lancaster 
Gent."  made  his  will,  probated  Oct.  10,  1733.  He  left  all  estate 
to  wife  Arabella  during  her  widowhood,  after  which  it  was  to 
be  divided  among  his  eight  sons  as  follows:  Thomas  to  have 
the  home  place  ("Barford,"  the  old  home  of  the  first  Thomas)  ; 
Peter  to  have  the  half  of  the  King  George  plantation  next  the 
river— 250  acres ;  Edward  the  other  half ;  Dale  to  have  negroes 
Harry  and  Winny,  and  he  failing  heirs  to  go  to  son  Thomas  Car- 
ter's son  Jesse ;  Joseph  to  have  negro  Robin ;  Daniel  to  have  ne- 
gro Nanny;  Charles  negroes  Sarah  and  Mary,  and  he  failing 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  105 

heirs  to  go  to  son  Thomas  Carter's  son  Thomas ;  James  to  have 
the  "great  bed  and  furniture  above  stairs"  (Nov.  13,  1728,  his 
father  deeded  him  a  negro  man)  ;  Peter  to  have  best  bed  and  fur- 
niture below  stairs ;  Edward  another  bed  and  furniture  upstairs. 
Thomas  to  have  the  great  Bible.  All  children  to  share  alike  in 
the  remainder  of  his  land  and  personal  property.  Peter  to  have 
the  management  of  son  Charles  until  he  arrives  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years,  which  was  prior  to  the  death  of  his  father  in  1733. 
Wife  Arabella  to  be  executrix,  but  in  case  of  her  death  or  remar- 
riage then  son  Peter  to  be  executor.  The  original  will  shows  a 
fine  signature  and  the  mark  of  a  large  seal,  but  the  wax  has 
crumbled  away.  The  inventory  of  personal  estate  amounted  to 
£415.  and  besides  the  usual  furniture  of  a  planter  of  that  class, 
included  twelve  negroes,  twenty  and  a  half  ounces  of  silver  plate, 
portrait  of  Edward  Dale,  and  picture  called  Hale's  New  Year's 
Gift.  He  had  in  the  book  line,  a  large  old  Bible,  another  large 
Bible  worth  three  shillings  more  than  the  the  first,  a  Common 
Prayer  Book,  History  of  the  Bible,  a  small  History  of  the  Bible, 
The  Whole  Duty  of  Man,  a  Serman  Book,  Practice  of  Piety,  Nel- 
son's Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  twelve  other  old  books,  and  an- 
other small  Bible,  making  a  total  of  twenty-two  volumes.  He 
had  a  seal  worth  six  shillings,  which  doubtless  bore  the  family 
arms,  and  probabily  was  the  seal  used  by  his  son  Joseph  in  1739, 
as  that  one  bore  the  crest  and  the  initials  "T.  C." 

The  family  record  of  Thomas  and  Arabella  Carter  was  evi- 
dently kept  in  one  of  the  Bibles,  as  the  Carter  Prayer  Book  gives 
no  record  of  births,  etc.,  of  their  chhildren.  The  will  shows  that 
they  had  eight  sons  as  follows : 

1.  Thomas,  III.,  died  in  1735      5.  James,  died  in  1747. 

2.  Joseph,  died  in  1751.  6.  Peter,  died  in  1789. 

3.  Daniel,  died  in  1759.  7.  Dale,  died  in  1776. 

4.  Edward,  died  in  1760.  8.  Charles,  died  in  1766. 

Mrs.  Arabella  Williamson  Carter  did  not  marry  again,  and 
after  the  death  of  her  son,  Thomas,  in  1735,  and  his  wife  in 
1737,  she  took  care  of  his  two  sons,  Jesse  and  Thomas,  both  of 
whom  in  after  years  settled  in  Pittsylvania  county  and  were  the 
ancestors  of  that  branch  of  the  family. 


Descendants  of  Thomas  Carter  III., 
of  Lancaster 

Thomas  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Arabella 
Carter,  born  about  1696,  lived  and  died  at  or  near  the  old  home 
on  Corotoman  River.  He  was  married  about  1720-1725  to  Joana 
Miller,  said  to  have  been  of  a  Maryland  family,  though  there 
was  a  Miller  family  at  that  time  in  Lancaster,  but  the  Lancaster 
marriage  bonds  do  not  contain  his  name.  This  Thomas  Carter's 
descendants  have  perpetuated  the  Williamson-Ball  names  of 
Jesse,  Juduthan,  Rawleigh  and  Williamson  more  than  any  other 
branch  of  Arabella  Williamson  Carter's  descendants.  Sept.  28, 
1730,  he  was  granted  200  acres  of  land  in  that  part  of  Gooch- 
land county  that  in  1748  became  Cumberland  county,  and  four 
years  later  another  grant  for  400  acres.  Thomas  Carter,  of 
Christ  Church  parish,  Lancaster  made  his  will  April  17,  1735, 
probated  July  9,  1735.  He  left  all  his  estate  to  wife,  Joan, 
and  after  her  death  to  his  two  sons,  Jesse  and  Thomas  Carter. 
He  asked  that  no  appraisement  of  his  personal  estate  be  made, 
but  an  inventory  shows  that  he  left  a  good  lot  of  household 
goods,  books,  a  gold  ring,  four  negroes  and  seven  sets  of  brick 
moulds,  which  shows  that  bricks  were  made  in  that  part  of  Vir- 
ginia. Joan  Carter  did  not  long  survive  her  husband  as  on 
May  3,  1737,  Mr.  Thomas  James  was  appointed  guardian  of 
Jesse  and  Thomas  Carter,  orphans  of  Thomas  and  Joan  Carter. 
Jesse  Carter  was  of  age  prior  to  March  10,  1748,  as  on  that 
date  the  court  made  a  final  settlement  with  him  for  his  share  of 
the  estates  of  his  father,  Thomas  Carter,  and  his  grandfather, 
Capt.  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.  Thomas  Carter  IV.  was  not  of  age 
until  Nov.  27,  1755,  but  Feb.  21,  1752,  the  court  decided  in  his 
favor  a  suit  against  his  guardian,  Mr.  Thomas  James,  for  his 
share  of  his  father's  and  grandfather's  estate.  He  then  chose 
his  brother  Jesse  as  his  guardian,  and  Aug.  17,  1753,  Jesse  Car- 
ter, as  guardian  of  his  brother,  Thomas,  returned  to  court  an 
account  for  the  services  of  two  negroes  belonging  to  Thomas. 


John    Payne   Carter,   Esq.,   of    North   Carolina. 
Miniature  about   1820. 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  107 

Thomas  and  Joan  Carter  had  two  sons  named  Thomas,  as  often 
happened  in  colonial  days.  The  elder  of  these,  born  before  his 
grandfather  made  his  will,  April  24,  1728,  died  about  1733-1734. 
and  when  another  son  was  born  Nov.  27,  1734,  he  was  also 
christened  Thomas. 

9.  Jesse  Carter,  born  circa  1724- 1725,  died  in  Pittsylvania  in 
Nov.,   181 1. 

10.  Thomas  Carter,  born  Nov.  27,  1734,  died  in  Pittsylvania, 
July  15,  1817. 

Carters  of  "Oakland,"  Pittsylvania. 

9.  Jesse  Carter,  appeared  in  the  Lancaster  records  next  after 
the  settlement  of  his  father's  estate  as,  "Jesse  Carter  of  the 
Parish  of  Christ  Church,  Lancaster,  Schoolmaster"  when  on  Dec. 
8,  1749,  he  sold  to  Col.  James  Gordon  125  acres  of  land  on 
Corotoman  River  that  had  descended  to  him  from  his  grand- 
father, Capt.  Thomas  Carter.  At  this  time  he  was  unmarried, 
but  in  the  next  year  he  is  said  to  have  married  Susan  Satterwhite, 
or  Satherwaite,  of  whose  parentage  no  record  has  been  located. 
That  is  a  name  that  is  found  but  occasionally  in  Virginia  records, 
and  Mr.  Crozier  in  his  Index  to  Southern  Pedigrees  of  more 
than  twenty  thousand  family  histories  and  genealogical 
notes  failed  to  find  one  of  this  family.  By  this  marriage  he  had 
a  son,  Jesse,  and  daughters,  Margaret  and  Frances.  This  wife 
died  and  Jesse  Carter  was  married  to  Mary  Chattin,  prior  to 
Dec.  6,  1760,  when  she  joined  him  in  a  deed  to  William  Griggs 
for  their  home  place  on  Corotoman  River  when  they  were  about 
to  remove  to  Cumberland  county.  Mary  Chattin  was  probably 
a  daughter  of  Joseph  Chattin,  of  Lancaster,  who  was  one  of  the 
processioners  of  the  land  in  the  parish  in  1743.  She  was  prob- 
ably connected  with  the  Chewning  family  as  Chattin  Chewning 
was  a  processioner  in  1747.  A  search  of  the  Lancaster  records 
for  wills  of  Chattin  and  Satterwhite  might  throw  some  light  on 
the  parentage  of  Jesse  Carter's  two  wives.  As  said  before, 
Jesse  Carter  removed  his  family  from  Lancaster  about  1760-1761 
to  his  part  of  his  father's  land  in  Cumberland  county,  where 
they  lived  until  1781,  when  they  removed  to  Pittsylvania,  where 


I08       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

he  was  living  in  1782  as  the  head  of  a  family  of  ten  whites  and 
seventeen  colored  servants.  In  1785  he  purchased  thirteen  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  lying  on  both  sides  of  Bannister  River,  Pittsyl- 
vania, built  a  fine  house,  called  the  place  "Oakland"'  and  settled 
down  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  This  old  place  is  now  owned  by 
his  great  grandson,  Jesse  Lawson  Carter,  and  is  situated  about 
four  miles  from  Chatham,  the  county  seat.  Jesse  Carter  of  Oak- 
land, made  his  will  Dec.  II,  1805,  probated  Dec.  11,  181 1.  He 
left  a  fine  estate  in  land,  negroes,  etc.,  to  wife,  Mary  Chattin 
Carter,  and  his  eight  children,  four  of  whom  only  shared  in 
the  residuary  estate,  as  he  had  provided  them  their  share  of 
his  property  before  he  died.     Jesse  Carter  had  issue  as  follows : 

11.  Jesse  Carter,  died  in  1815  in  Caswell  county,  N.  C. 

12.  Frances  Carter,  married  James  Hopkins  of  Pittsylvania. 

13.  Margaret,  married  Samuel  Thompson  of  Pittsylvania. 

14.  Sarah,  married  Jeduthan  Carter,  of  "Mt.  View,"  Pittsyl- 
vania. 

15.  Thomas   Chattin   Carter,   died    1820   in   Pittsylvania. 

16.  Joseph  Carter,  of  "Oakland,"  died  in  1838. 

17.  Mary  Carter,  was  the  second  wife  of  James  Hopkins. 

18.  John  Carter,  of  "Sandy  River,"  Pittsylvania. 

11.  Jesse  Carter,  Jr.,  born  in  Lancaster  county,  died  in  Cas- 
well county,  N.  C,  in  1815,  leaving  a  large  estate  in  land,  negroes 
and  other  property  to  his  third  wife  and  eight  children.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  his  name  appears  in  a  list  printed 
by  Virginia  in  1835  of  non-commissioned  officers  and  men  of  the 
Virginia  Line  during  the  Revolution,  whose  names  appeared  on 
the  army  register,  but  who  had  not  received  their  bounty  land. 
After  the  war  he  married  Anne  Payne,  or  Paine  of  Pittsylvania 
county,  supposed  to  belong  to  the  family  of  Payne  of  Gooch- 
land county,  of  which  Mrs.  Dolly  Madison  was  a  member,  and 
which  had  a  branch  in  Pittsylvania  county.  She  bore  him  two 
daughters  and  two  sons  and  died.  He  then  married  her  sister, 
Elizabeth  Payne,  who  bore  him  a  son  and  daughter.  After  her 
death  he  was  married  in  Caswell  ocunty,  N.  C,  to  which  he  had 
moved,  to  Sarah  Brown  on  Dec.  17,  1809,  who  with  a  son  and 
daughter  survived  him.     In  Caswell  county,  which  adjoins  Pitts- 


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sylvania  county,  Va.,  Jesse  Carter,  Jr.,  acquired  a  large  estate 
in  land  and  negroes  and  was  said  to  be  at  the  time  of  his  death 
one  of  the  wealthiest  men  in  North  Carolina.  Is  said  to  have 
left  his  son,  Dr.  Jesse  Carter  III.,  about  a  hundred  thousand 
dollars  in  gold. 

Payne  and  Brown  Excursus. 

As  I  have  not  succeeded  in  getting  from  any  of  the  descendants  data 
from  the  Pittsylvania  records  that  would  show  the  parentage  of  Anne  and 
Elizabeth  Payne  Carter,  I  am  unable  to  give  an  account  of  their  family; 
but  I  am  reasonably  sure  that  they  were  members  of  the  Payne  family  of 
Pittsylvania,  Goochland  and  Lancaster,  which  since  their  settlement  in 
Virginia,  has  been  a  prominent  family,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  politi- 
cal life  of  their  counties,  frequently  holding  the  various  county  offices, 
and  marrying  into  the  best  families  of  Virginia,  such  as  the  Balls,  Chi- 
chesters,  Woodsons,  Lees,  Merrymans,  Madisons,  etc.  Exceedingly  in- 
teresting data  of  this  family  has  appeared  in  the  Virginia  Historical  Maga- 
zine, Vols.  V.,  VL,  VII.,  and  the  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vols.  II. 
and  VI. 

Sarah  Brown  Carter  was  the  daughter  of  John  Edmunds  Brown  and 
his  wife  Anne  Bedford  of  Halifax  County,  who  before  the  Revolution  re- 
moved from  Halifax  to  South  Carolina.  During  the  Revolution  he  was 
driven  out  of  South  Carolina  by  the  Tories,  and  on  his  way  back  to  Vir- 
ginia decided  to  settle  in  Caswell  County,  N.  C,  where  he  purchased  a 
large  plantation. 

Besides  Sallie  Brown  Carter,  he  had  issue,  Nancy,  who  married  Ed- 
mund Harper  of  Halifax;  and  sons  Jethro,  Bedford,  and  William,  one  of 
whom  is  said  to  have  been  the  grandfather  of  John  C.  Brown,  Maj.-Gen. 
C.  S.  A.,  and  Governor  of  Tennessee.  Jethro  Brown  married,  May  28, 
1788,  Lucy  Williamson,  and  had  issue:  James  Williamson  Brown,  who 
married  Mary  A.  Carter,  daughter  of  Jesse  Carter  by  his  first  wife,  Anne 
Payne ;  Bedford  Brown,  U.  S.  Senator  from  North  Carolina  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  and  father  of  the  well-known  physician,  Dr.  Bedford  Brown 
of  Alexandria,  Va. ;  John  Edmunds  Brown  who  married  his  first  cousin, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jesse  Carter  by  his  third  wife,  Sarah  Brown;  Jef- 
ferson, William,  Martha,  and  Elizabeth. 

Jesse  Carter's  will,  dated  Sept.  30,  181 5,  probated  in  January, 
1816,  in  Caswell  county,  N.  C,  ordered  his  house  and  lot  in 
Petersburg,  Va.,  sold;  mentions  negroes  brought  by  his  last 
wife  Sallie  Brown ;  gives  $500.00  to  his  nephew  Jesse  Thompson ; 


HO       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Directs  that  all  debts  due  him  from  Peyton  Morton  (the  Paynes 
and  Mortons  had  intermarried),  Ralph  Hubbard  (likewise  the 
Paynes  and  Hubards),  and  David  Thomas,  Sr.  be  cancelled, 
and  that  Peyton  Morton  be  permitted  to  live  the  rest  of  his  life 
on  the  Carter  Plantation  where  he  was  then  living.  Rest  of 
estate  to  wife  Sallie  Brown  Carter  and  his  eight  children.  Son 
John  Payne  Carter  and  son-in-law  Romulus  M.  Saunders  and 
friends  John  H.  Brown,  and  John  P.  Harrison  to  be  his  execu- 
tors.   He  left  issue  as  follows : 

ist  Mar.    19.  Rebecca  Carter,  married  in  1812,  Hon.  Romulus 
M.  Saunders,  U.  S.  Minister  to  Spain. 

20.  Mary  A.  Carter,  married  in  1818,  James  William- 

son Brown. 

21.  John  Payne  Carter,  an  attorney,  died  in  Alabama 

in  1830. 

22.  Archibald    Gracie    Carter,    an    attorney,    died    in 

North  Carolina. 

2nd  Mar.  23.  Susan   Satterwhite  Carter,  married   Robt.   Gallo- 
way, of  North  Carolina. 
24.  Dr.  Jesse  Carter,  died  in  Mobile,  Ala. 

3rd  Mar.  25.  Elizabeth    Brown   Carter,   married    in    1827,   Col. 
John  E.  Brown. 

26.  William    Brown    Carter,    an    attorney,    in    North 
Carolina. 

19.  Rebecca  Pine  Carter,  married  Nov.  1,  1812,  Romulus 
Mitchell  Saunders,  second  son  of  William  Saunders,  Jr.,  and  his 
first  wife  a  Miss  Mitchell.  Wm.  Saunders,  Jr.,  was  an  officer  in 
the  6th  N.  C.  Regt.  in  the  Rev.  and  one  of  the  charter  members 
of  the  Society  of  Cincinnati.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  first 
"Provincial  Congress"  at  Halifax,  N.  C.  In  1794  he  removed 
to  Tennessee,  where  he  died  in  1803.  Romulus  M.  Saunders  was 
educated  at  the  University  of  N.  C,  and  was  a  prominent  lawyer 
in  that  state.  Was  a  member  of  the  N.  C.  House  of  Commons 
181 5  to  1820  and  was  Speaker  of  the  House  for  two  years.  Mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  N.   C.  in   1821   to  1827,  and  1841-1845. 


Hon.  Robert  Bradley  HawleYj 
Galveston,   Texas. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  m 

Attorney  General  of  N.  C.  1828,  and  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 
in  1835.  In  1833  was  President  of  the  Commission  to  settle  the 
U.  S.  Claims  against  France;  and  was  Minister  to  Spain  1846- 
1850.  Romulus  and  Rebecca  Carter  Saunders  had  issue :  James, 
Franklin ;  Anne  Pine ;  Rebecca ;  and  Camillus ;  all  of  whom  died 
unmarried  except  Camillus  Saunders,  who  married  Harriet  Tay- 
lor, of  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  died  without  issue. 

20.  Mary  Anne  Carter,  married  July  30,  1818,  James  Wil- 
liamson Brown,  of  Caswell  county.  He  was  born  Feb.  18,  1789,  at 
Yanceyville,  N.  C,  and  died  in  Dec,  1866,  in  Washington,  where 
he  was  a  clerk  in  the  Treasury  Department.  He  was  educated 
at  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C,  in  i8o2-'5,  Wm.  &  Mary,  Va.,  i8o7-'9,  and 
after  leaving  college  traveled  extensively  in  Europe.  He  suf- 
fered financial  reverses  and  spent  the  last  twenty-five  years  of 
his  life  in  the  Treasury  Department  at  Washington.  J.  W.  and 
Mary  Carter  Brown  had  issue  as  follows : 

27.  John  Payne  Brown,  settled  in  Des  Moines  and  left  descend- 

ants there. 

28.  Lelia  Brown,  married  a  Judge  Talbot  of  Shreveport.  La.,  a 

wealthy  planter  and  attorney.  They  had  a  son,  Pinkney 
Talbot,  died  in  the  Confederate  army ;  and  a  daughter, 
Mary,  married  a  Mr.  Cagle. 

29.  Susan  Carter  Brown,  born  Feb.  18,  1825. 

30.  Lafayette  Brown,  died  of  tuberculosis  at  St.  Paul,   Minn., 

in  1864.  In  i860  he  was  Lt.  Commander  of  the  U.  S. 
sloop  Powhatan  on  the  west  coast  of  Africa  hunting  vio- 
lators of  the  slave  trade  laws.  He  married  Julia  Carusi, 
daughter  of  an  Italian  musician  of  note,  sister  of  Eugene 
and  Nathaniel  Carusi,  Attorneys  at  Law,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

31.  Mary  A.  Brown,  youngest  daughter,  died  of  tuberculosis  at 

age  of  20. 

29.  Susan  Carter  Brown,  born  Feb.  18,  1825,  Caswell  Co., 
N.  C,  died  Sept.  27,  1867,  Memphis,  Tenn.  While  visiting  her 
uncle,  Dr.  Pinkney  Bethel,  at  Memphis,  she  met  and  married 
Joseph  Henry  Hawley,  September  2y,  1843.    Joseph  Henry  Haw- 


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ley,  born  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Nov.  7,  1820,  died  at  his  home  three 
miles  from  Memphis,  August  4,  1857.  He  was  a  son  of  Hezekiah 
Hawley,  and  his  first  wife  Mrs.  Malinda  McConnell,  daughter  of 
Richard  Finley,  an  early  settler  of  Kentucky.  Hezekiah  Hawley 
(born  at  Bridgewater,  Conn.,  Feb.  18,  1782,  died  at  Memphis, 
March  1,  1859),  an  attorney  at  law,  settled  in  Kentucky  soon  after 
1800,  where  he  practiced  law  and  was  on  the  bench  at  Louisville 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  owned  and  built  the  famous  mansion 
and  race  course  seven  miles  out  of  the  city  known  as  "Wood- 
lawn." 

Hawley  Excursus. 

The  Hawley  family  has  been  fully  written  up  by  Mr.  Elias  Hawley  in 
a  large  tome,  "The  Hawley  Record."  The  English  ancestry  of  this  family 
is  expounded  back  to  1006  A.  D.,  with  illustrations  and  coats-of-arms. 
The  first  to  come  to  America  was  Mr.  Joseph  Hawley,  who  resided  at 
Stratford,  Connecticut,  as  early  as  1629.  He  was  the  first  town  recorder 
of  that  place  as  well  as  magistrate.  He  owned  several  thousand  acres  of 
land  in  and  around  Stratford,  and  was  returned  to  the  General  Assembly 
as  a  Deputy  twenty-nine  times  between  the  years  1658- 1687.  His  wife  was 
Katharine  Birdseye.  Their  eldest  son,  Samuel  Hawley,  was  also  a  large 
land  owner  and  farmer,  and  succeeded  his  father  as  a  member  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  being  returned  twenty-three  times.  He  was  a  first  settler 
of  the  town  of  Derby.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife,  Mary,  being 
a  granddaughter  of  Governor  Welles ;  and  the  second  wife,  Patience 
(widow  of  Lieut.  John  Hubbell),  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Nicholls,  and 
granddaughter  of  Sergeant  Francis  Nicholls,  through  whom  this  family 
claims  descent  from  King  Robert  Bruce.  (See  "Sergeant  Francis 
Nicholls,"  by  Walter  Nicholls). 

Stephen  Hawley,  son  of  Samuel  and  Patience,  settled  at  New  Milford, 
Conn.,  where  he  owned  a  thousand  acres  of  land  and  a  fulling  mill.  He 
also  has  to  his  credit  many  civic  services.  His  wife,  Mary  DeForest,  was 
a  descendant  of  the  famous  Huguenot,  Jesse  DeForest,  who  brought  over 
the  first  Walloon  emigrants  to  New  York  City;  and  also  of  Capt.  Benj. 
Blagge.  (See  N.  Y.  Archives,  Riker's  History  of  New  Harlem,  and  Baird's 
Huguenot  Emigration  to  America.)  Stephen  and  Mary  Hawley  had  a 
son  Hezekiah,  who  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Phelps,  and  traces 
back  to  William  Phelps,  who  came  over  in  the  "Mary  &  John"  in  1630, 
and  settled  at  Dorchester,  Mass-  This  William  Phelps  was  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  Assembly,  was  governor  for  a  year  of  the  new  Colony 
of  Connecticut,  with  a  commission  from  the  government  of  Massachusetts, 


Sue   Murray   Hawley, 
Wife  of  Maj.   John   Calvin   Oakes,   U.   S.   Eng. 


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and  was  a  founder  and  first  settler  of  the  town  of  Windsor,  Conn.  See 
Judge  Oliver  Phelps'  "History  of  the  Phelps  Family."  Daniel  Phelps  was 
also  a  descendant  of  Edward  Griswold,  an  original  settler  and  principal 
promoter  of  the  town  of  Clinton,  Conn.,  originally  called  Kenilworth, 
after  his  birthplace  in  England;  a  member  of  the  General  Court  of  Con- 
necticut, etc.  Also  of  Daniel  Horsford,  and  William  Thrall,  both  first 
settlers  of  Connecticut. 

Hezekiah  and  Sarah  Phelps  Hawley  had  a  son  Joseph  Chrysostom,  who 
was  a  soldier  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  in  the  battles  of 
Flat  Bush,  White  Plains,  Germantown,  and  Monmouth,  and  spent  the 
winter  at  Valley  Forge.  His  wife  was  Amy  Bradley,  daughter  of  Griffin 
and  Mabel  Bradley  of  New  Haven,  descendants  of  first  settlers  of  that 
place.  They  had  three  sons  and  six  daughters,  the  third  son  being  Heze- 
kiah Hawley,  who  removed  to  Kentucky.  Copies  of  wills,  marriage 
records,  war  records  and  other  records  of  this  family  are  possessed  by 
Mrs.  Short  Willis  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  are  on  file  among  the  archives 
of  the  General  Society  D.  A.  R. 

Joseph  Henry  and  Susan  Carter  Brown  Hawley,  of  Memphis, 
had  issue : 

(1)  Robert  Bradley  Hawley,  studied  law  under  Judge  Bow- 
man of  Louisiana,  and  later  settled  in  Galveston,  Texas,  but  did 
not  practice  there;  instead  he  opened  a  commission  house  and 
became  largely  interested  in  sugar  plantations  in  Louisiana  and 
Cuba.  He  was  twice  a  member  of  Congress  from  Texas  and  re- 
fused a  third  term.  Dec.  11,  1878,  he  married  Mary  Drake  Rice, 
and  to  them  was  born  one  child, — Susan  Murry  Hawley,  on  Oct. 
22,  1879.  May  2>  l9°2,  sne  married  Maj.  John  Calvin  Oakes 
of  the  U.  S.  Engineers  stationed  at  Galveston.  Mrs.  Oakes  was 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  women  of  Galveston,  and  her  untimely 
death  in  August,  1908,  was  a  great  shock  to  her  wide  circle  of 
friends.     She  left  two  sons,  Hawley  and  John  Calvin,  Jr. 

(2)  Lucie  Malinda  Hawley,  born  Jan.  4,  1854,  married  Mr. 
Green  Williams,  a  wealthy  capitalist  of  Memphis,  and  has  one  son, 
Marion  Williams. 

(3)  Frank  Lafayette,  born  Nov.  1,  1857,  died  unmarried,  in  San 
Antonio  Jan.  27,  1884. 

(4)  Joseph  Henry  Hawley,  Jr.,  born  in  Memphis  April  20,  1846. 
Appointed  a  cadet  at  the  Naval  Academy  by  President  Johnson,  but 
in  the  fall  of  1867  resigned  at  the  earnest  request  of  his  mother 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


when  she  was  dying.  Later  engaged  in  business  in  Louisville,  and 
about  1875  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  in  newspaper 
work.  In  1880  he  was  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Missouri  House  of 
Representatives,  and  as  a  mark  of  esteem  and  appreciation  that 
body  presented  him  with  a  handsome  gold  watch.  Still  later  re- 
moved to  Galveston  where  he  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Currie 
&  Hawley,  engaged  in  the  export  trade  with  Mexico.  Mr.  Haw- 
ley  has  a  most  interesting  and  charming  personality  and  a  wide 
circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances.  He  is  in  great  demand  as 
an  after  dinner  speaker,  not  only  in  his  own  city,  but  is  often 
called  upon  to  represent  Galveston's  various  industries,  etc.,  at 
distinguished  gatherings  in  all  parts  of  the  U.  S.  and  Mexico. 
Feb.  22,  1870,  Joseph  H.  Hawley  was  married  in  Christ  Church, 
Louisville,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Craik,  to  Sarah  Anne  Brown,  daughter 
of  Chastaine  William  Scott  Brown,  of  Louisville,  and  his  wife 
Rebecca  Mary  Debb.  He  was  a  son  of  William  and  Nancy 
Scott  Brown,  who  removed  to  Kentucky  early  in  the  nineteenth 
century  from  Culpeper  Co.,  Va. 

Joseph  H.  and  Sarah  B.  Hawley  had  issue  a  daughter  and  son, — 
Mary  Carter  and  John  Henry. 

Mary  Carter  Hawley,  born  at  La  Grange,  Ky.,  Dec.  23,  1871, 
like  her  cousin,  Sue  Murry  Hawley,  was  one  of  the  belles  of 
Galveston,  and  on  the  28th  of  March,  1894,  became  the  bride 
of  Short  A.  Willis,  son  of  Richard  Short  and  Narcissa  Wor- 
sham  Willis,  of  Galveston.  Mr.  Willis  is  a  graduate  of  Prince- 
ton, and  now  a  retired  banker  and  merchant,  living  in  Wash- 
ington, where  he  built  a  beautiful  home  in  the  Spanish  style 
of  architecture  on  Nineteenth  street.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Princeton  Club  of  New  York,  and  the  Metropolitan  and  Chevy 
Chase  Clubs,  Washington.  Mrs.  Willis  is  Librarian  General  of 
the  D.  A.  R.,  member  of  the  Colonial  Dames  of  Connecticut, 
Cannecticut  Historical  Society,  Connecticut  Red  Cross  Society, 
Daughters  of  Founders  and  Patriots  Club  of  Washing- 
ton, Washington  Women's  Club,  Washington  Society  of  Fine 
Arts,  Washington  Colonial  Dame  Club,  National  Geographical 
Society,  American  Historical  Association,  the  Stonewall  Jackson 
Chapter  U.  D.  C.  at  Washington,  etc.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willis  had 


Joseph   Henry  Hawley,   Esq. 
Galveston,    Texas. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  115 

three  children,  Olive  Elizabeth,  Richard  Short,  and  Henry  Haw- 
ley. 

John  Henry  Hawley.  born  Oct.  21,  1873,  at  La  Grange,  Ky.,  is 
a  cotton  broker  at  Galveston.  March  5,  1898,  he  married  Sarah 
Ball  Davis,  daughter  of  Waters  S.  and  Sarah  Allen  Davis,  of 
Galveston.  They  have  two  children,  John  Henry.,  Jr..,  and 
Sarah  Anne. 

21.  John  Payne  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Jesse  Carter,  of  Cas- 
well, N.  C,  born  in  1797,  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-three,  Jan. 
4,  1830,  at  the  home  of  his  cousin,  Judge  A.  F.  Hopkins,  Hunts- 
ville,  Alabama,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness.  He  was  gradu- 
ated in  181 5  from  Princeton  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  famous  old  Cleosophic  Society  of  that  college. 
After  leaving  Princeton  he  studied  law  at  the  Law  School  of 
Judge  Archibald  DeBow  Murphy,  at  'The  Hermitage,"  Ala- 
mance County,  X.  C,  and  later  married  the  Judge's  only  daugh- 
ter, after  which  they  removed  to  the  Carter  plantation,  "The 
Oaks,"  formerly  in  Caswell  County,  but  then  in  Davie  County. 
He  was  associated  with  his  father-in-law,  Judge  Murphy,  in 
some  scheme  for  the  improvement  of  the  interior  of  the  country, 
by  which  they  lost  heavily.  After  this  John  Payne  Carter  re- 
moved to  Huntsville,  Alabama,  and  entered  into  the  practice  of 
law  with  his  cousin,  Judge  Arthur  F.  Hopkins.  He  had  not  re- 
moved his  family  from  North  Carolina  when  he  died  in  1830. 
The  members  of  the  bar  assembled  and  passed  resolutions  of  re- 
spect to  his  memory,  which  they  directed  to  be  published  and 
spread  upon  the  minutes  of  the  next  session  of  the  Circuit  Court. 
They  resolved  that  "in  testimony  of  their  regret  for  the  death  of 
their  esteemed  brother,  John  P.  Carter,  Esq.,  and  as  evidence 
of  their  respect  for  his  integrity  of  character,  urbanity  of  manner, 
and  profound  legal  attainments  (they)  will  wear  crape  on  the 
left  arm  for  thirty  days."  Nov.  1,  1895,  Judge  Robt.  P.  Dick, 
United  States  judge  of  the  Western  District  of  North  Carolina, 
writing  to  Judge  A.  M.  Aiken,  Danville,  Ya.,  a  grandson  of 
John  P.  Carter,  about  his  grandfather  and  great  grandfather,  said 
in  part  as  follows:  "The  letters  called  up  vivid  recollections  of 
conversations  I  had  forty  or  fiftv  vears  ago  with  mv  father — 


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which  fully  correspond  with  Judge  Turner's  estimate  of  your 
great  grandfather  (Judge  Murphy)  and  Judge  Ruffin.  My 
father  had  a  very  high  estimate  of  the|  intellect  and  genius 
of  Judge  Murphy  as  the  most  highly  gifted  man  he  had  ever 
known.  That  his  intellectual  resources  were  marvelous — ready 
for  any  company  and  equal  to  any  occasion — genius  of  the 
highest  order.  My  father  often  told  me  of  a  speech  made  by 
Judge  Murphy  at  Randolph  Court,  and  said  for  manner,  style 
and  intellectual  force  it  had  never  been  excelled  in  forensic  elo- 
quence in  any  age.  It  electrified  the  audience  into  breathless 
silence  and  admiration.  My  father's  conversations  filled  my  mem- 
ory with  pleasant  reminiscences  of  your  grandfather,  John  Paine 
Carter,  and  grandmother,  Cornelia  Murphey.  I  have  heard  him 
say  that  when  married  they  were  the  handsomest  bridegroom  and 
bride  in  the  State.  He  told  me  that  your  grandfather  was  a 
courtly  gentleman  and  quite  an  orator  at  the  bar,  and  highly 
gifted  with  conversational  accomplishments  and  social  qualities. 
I  remember  your  grandmother  and  the  two  little  girls  and  boy 
in  her  home." 

Judge  Aiken  owns  a  vety  handsome  miniature  of  his  grand- 
father, John  Paine  Carter, — see  illustration.  The  beautiful 
miniature  of  his  wife,  Cornelia  Murphey  Carter,  was 
stolen  by  one  of  Sherman's  soldiers,  from  her  granddaughter,. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Worth,  of  Wilmington,  now  Mrs.  George 
Reade  French.  Mrs.  French  writes  as  follows  of  this  incident : 
"I  have  a  miniature  of  my  grandfather,  John  Paine  Carter;  it 
belonged  to  my  mother,  while  the  miniature  of  his  wife  was  in 
possession  of  Judge  Aiken's  mother  until  a  few  months  before 
the  clove  of  the  Civil  War,  when  I  was  on  a  visit  to  my  aunt 
and  there  taw  it  for  the  first  time.  I  was  so  impressed  with  its 
beauty,  that  I  begged  her  to  allow  me  to  bring  it  home  with  me 
that  the  other  members  of  the  family  might  see  how  lovely 
their  grandmother  was.  It  was  painted  on  ivory,  and  was  in 
a  gold  case  made  into  a  large  oblong  locket,  with  gold  beading 
around  it  and  a  little  ring  to  suspend  it  by  on  a  chain.  We  were 
refugeeing  near  the  town  of  Fayetteville,  N.  C,  on  the  line  of 
Sherman's  march,  and  I  had  the  exquisite  torture  of  seeing  it 


Mrs.  Joseph  H.  Hawley   (nee  Sarah  A.  Brown),  Galveston,  Texas. 

Mrs.   Short  A.   Willis    (nee  Mary  Carter  Hawley),  Washington. 

Mr.  John  Henry  Hawley,  Galveston,  Texas. 

Richard  and  Henry  Willis, 

Olive  Elizabeth  Willis. 


-- 


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taken  away  by  a  very  rough  soldier.  I  implored  him  to  take 
the  case  and  leave  us  the  picture,  but  he  said  it  would  grace  his 
northern  home  and  he  wanted  it.  My  grandfather's  was  in  a 
black  case  and  did  not  appeal  to  him,  this  is  why  we  have  it 
now.  The  beautiful  one  of  grandmama  is,  I  expect,  in  the 
Atlantic  Ocean,  for  the  "Bummers"  (Sherman's)  took  Jtheir 
stolen  plunder  gathered  all  the  way  from  Columbia  to  Fayette- 
ville,  and  shipped  it  by  the  steamer  Mary  Lyon  to  New  York,  and 
she  foundered  off  the  Jersey  coast  or  Cape  Hatteras.  I  have 
always  hoped  that  miniature  that  awful  soldier  got  was  among 
the  articles  shipped.  I  was  so  deadly  afraid  of  those  terrible  men 
I  could  not  put  up  the  fight  for  the  picture  I  would  now.  I 
can  recall  now  how  my  heart  died  within  me  when  I  saw  the 
box  in  his  hands  containing  all  of  mother's  and  cousin's  jewelry. 
This  cousin  was  visiting  us  at  the  time  and  had  a  large  collec- 
tion of  fine  and  valuable  jewels  which  had  been  sent  her  by  her 
father,  Peter  Umstead  Murphey,  son  of  Judge  Murphey,  a  cap- 
tain in  the  United  States  Navy  before  the  war,  but  who  had  re- 
signed and  entered  the  Confederate  Navy.  The  box  in  which 
we  concealed  the  jewelry  and  miniatures  was  a  small,  beautiful 
tea  chest  made  from  a  root  of  olive  wood  from  the  Mount  of 
Olives,  in  Jerusalem,  and  had  been  given  to  Uncle  Umstead  by  an 
old  merchant  in  the  town  of  Jerusalem,  who  was  very  fond  of 
him,  he  having  spent  some  time  there  when  he  was  a  midshipman 
on  a  cruise  in  the  Mediterranean.  Had  the  soldier  known  a  rare 
thing  he  would  have  kept  the  chest  also,  but  we  found  it  in  the 
yard  toward  evening,  and  carefully  hid  it  from  the  thousands 
who  overrun  our  home  for  three  long  days.  I  have  the  chest 
now  with  its  silver  plate  marked  'Gethsemane.'  " 

On  Thursday,  January  4,  1821,  John  Paine  Carter  and  Cor- 
nelia Anne  Murphey  (born  April  20,  1806)  were  married  at  "The 
Hermitage."  She  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Judge  Archibald 
DeBow  Murphey  and  his  wife,  Jane  Armistead  Scott.  They  had 
issue  three  children : 

32  Jane  Rebecca  Carter,  born  Nov.  5,  1821 ;  died  Aug.  22,  1882. 

33.  Archibald  Murphey  Carter,  born  July  23,  1824;  died  Oct., 
if 


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34.  Mary  Elizabeth  Jesse  Carter,  born  Oct.  1,  1827;  died  Dec. 
31 ,  1896. 

2,2.  Jane  R.  Carter,  married  on  Feb.  17,  1846,  at  "Eagle 
Falls,"  Rockingham  county,  N.  C,  Benjamin  Wilson  Aiken,  an 
attorney  at  law  of  Madison,  N.  C.  He  was  born  May  19,  1821, 
at  his  family  home,  "Somerset,"  Cumberland  county,  Va.,  and 
died  June  15,  185 1.  Their  son,  Judge  Aiken,  of  Danville,  has  a 
fine  portrait  of  his  father,  and  another  descendant  who  lives  out 
of  touch  with  a  photographer  has  the  companion  portrait  of  Jane 
Rebecca  Carter.  They  had  issue:  (1).  Martha  H.  Aiken,  born 
Dec.  12,  1846,  married  Oct.  15,  1867,  Chas.  P.  Mallett,  of  Fay- 
etteville,  N.  C,  and  had  issue:  Margaret  Wright  Mallett,  mar- 
ried R.  L.  Holmes,  a  Wilmington,  N.  C,  merchant ;  Jane  Carter 
Mallett,  married  Harry  Overman,  a  lawyer  of  Salisbury,  N.  C, 
and  brother  of  Senator  Overman  of  North  Carolina;  Wilson 
Aiken  Mallett  married  and  lives  at  Fayetteville ;  and  Marion 
Alexander  Mallett,  unmarried.  (2).  Judge  Archibald  Murphey 
Aiken,  an  attorney,  who  has  been  on  the  bench  for  the  past  twenty 
years,  at  Danville,  Va.  He  was  born  Aug.  9,  1848,  and  married 
on  Dec.  14,  1881,  to  Mary  Ella  Yates,  of  Danville.  They  have 
one  son,  Archibald,  Jr.,  who  was  graduated  from  the  University 
of  Virginia  in  1910.  (3).  Benjamin  Wilson  Aiken,  Jr.,  born 
July  18,  1850,  died  in  Houston,  Texas,  March  30,  1899,  un- 
married. 

33.  Archibald  Murphey  Carter,  only  son  of  John  and  Cor- 
nelia Carter,  was  a  shoe  merchant.  He  married  Virginia  Esom- 
bert,  of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  by  whom  he  had  three  children: 
(1).  Augustus  Esombert,  who  died  in  1910,  like  his  mother  and 
father,  of  tuberculosis.  (2).  Cornelia  Worth,  married  a  Mr. 
Hundley  and  died  leaving  a  son,  Thomas  Hundley,  now  in  the 
United  States  Army  or  Navy — lost  sight  of ;  and  daughters,  Olive 
and  Mattie.     (3).  Martha. 

34.  Mary  Elizabeth  Jessie  Carter,  youngest  daughter  of 
John  Paine  Carter,  married  June  26,  1845,  Barzilla  Gardner 
Worth,  in  Ashboro,  Randolph  county,  N.  C.  They  lived  for  a 
couple  of  years  in  New  Salem,  N.  C,  where  Mr.  Worth  was  a 


Judge  A.   M.  Aiken,  Danville,  Va- 


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merchant,  then  four  or  five  years  in  Ashboro,  where  he  was  in 
the  same  business,  and  finally  settled  in  the  fall  of  1853  in  Wil- 
mington, where  for  more  than  half  a  century  Mr.  Worth  was 
one  of  the  leading  merchants,  ship  owners,  manufacturers,  etc.,  of 
that  city.  He  died  Nov.  19,  19 10,  in  the  eighty-ninth  year  of  his 
age.  The  papers  of  his  home  city  were  filled  with  glowing 
tributes  to  his  life  and  memory,  too  long  to  reproduce  here.  From 
that  of  Mr.  James  Sprunt,  I  take  the  following  brief  extracts : 
"The  words  are  recalled  (a  glowing  tribute  to  Henry  Clay), 
upon  the  demise  on  yesterday  of  one  of  his  devoted  contem- 
poraries, our  venerable  and  beloved  fellow  citizen,  B.  G.  Worth, 
at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-eight  and  a  half  years,  whose  honored 
career,  a  living  epistle,  known  and  read  of  all  men,  has  been  for 
more  than  half  a  century  a  benediction  upon  the  people  of  Wil- 
mington ;  for  this  man,  like  Enoch  of  old,  walked  with  God  and 
was  not,  for  God  took  him  to  Himself. 

"Pre-eminent  as  a  ship  owner  in  the  maritime  affairs  of  our 
port  in  antebellum  times,  when  nearly  a  hundred  vessels  lined 
our  busy  wharves  or  waited  at  anchor  in  our  streams,  he  lived 
through  peace  and  war,  through  pestilence  and  famine,  to  peace 
again,  always  abounding  in  the  work  which  had  been  given  him  to 
do,  and  which  he  did  so  well  that  his  labor  has  not  been  in  vain. 

"He  was  the  last  survivor  of  more  than  fifty  old  time  mer- 
chants of  Wilmington  of  1856,  eminent  among  whom  were  the 
intrepid  spirits  who  had  builded  the  Wilmington  and  Weldon 
railroad.  'A  galaxy  of  moral  excellence  the  most  perfect,  of  in- 
tellectual ability  the  most  eminent,  of  fidelity  the  most  unwaver- 
ing,' in  the  annals  of  the  Cape  Fiear. 

"Closely  identified  with  our  civil  and  religious  development, 
since  the  date  mentioned  until  his  death,  his  patriotic  spirit,  his 
guiding  hand,  his  consecrated  devotion,  have  been  manifest  in 
the  public  life." 

Worth  Excursus. 

The  following  is  taken  from  the  "Biographical  History  of  North  Caro- 
lina," by  Capt.  S.  A.  Ashe,  Vol.  III. : 

"Mr.  Barzillai  Gardner  Worth  was  born  June  26,  1822,  at  Center,  in 
Guilford  County,  twelve  miles  from  Greensboro,  N.  C.    His  ancestors  were 


120       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

all  of  English  extraction,  and  were  Friends,  being  followers  of  Fox.  Wil- 
liam Worth,  the  first  of  the  name  to  come  to  America,  fled  from  England 
in  1662  to  escape  religious  persecution,  and  landing  in  Massachusetts,  he 
settled  on  the  Island  of  Nantucket,  where  in  1665  he  married  Sarah  Macy, 
whose  father,  Thomas  Macy  had  come  to  Massachusetts  in  1640.  Wm. 
Worth  was  the  first  justice  of  the  peace  of  Nantucket,  being  commissioned 
by  Governor  Andrea,  and  in  1675  he  was  clerk  of  the  court,  and  three 
years  later  was  recorder  and  assistant  justice  of  the  colony,  and  in  1680 
served  as  a  clerk  of  the  Admiralty.  He  attained  a  great  age  and  died  in 
1723.  Barzillai  Worth's  grandfather,  Capt.  Daniel  Worth,  at  first  fol- 
lowed the  sea,  and  was  captain  of  a  Nantucket  Whaling  ship,  and  made 
five  long  voyages  from  his  island  home.  When  thirty  years  of  age,  how- 
ever, in  1769,  he  emigrated  to  North  Carolina  and  purchased  land  near  the 
Friends'  settlement,  in  the  vicinity  of  Guilford  Court  House,  and  there 
reared  his  family,  dying  in  1830.  One  of  his  sons,  Dr.  David  Worth,  mar- 
ried Eunice  Gardner,  and  purchased  a  plantation  at  Center,  a  neighborhood 
which  took  its  name  from  the  Friends'  Meeting  House  nearby.  He  was 
born  in  1776,  and  died  in  1844.  He  had  a  family  of  twelve  children,  of 
whom  Governor  Jonathon  Worth  was  the  third  and  oldest  to  reach  matur- 
ity, and  Barzillai  the  youngest."  Dr.  David  Worth  was  a  member  of  the 
North  Carolina  Legislature  in  1820,  '22,  and  '23;  and  his  son,  Dr.  John 
Milton  Worth,  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  in  1842,  while  his  third  son, 
Jonathon  Worth,  was  Governor  of  the  State. 

B.  G.  and  Mary  E.  Carter  Worth  had  issue: 
(1).  David  Jonathon  Worth,  born  March  9,  1846,  died  April 
23,  1846. 

(2).  Archibald  Carter  Worth,  born  Aug.  29,   1847. 
(3).  Cornelia  Murphey  Worth,  born  Feb.  10,  1849. 
(4).  William  Elliott  Worth,  born  Dec.  21,  1850. 
(5).  Mary  Jane  Worth,  born  Sept.  13,  1852. 
(6).  Eunice  Virginia  Worth,  born  Aug.  26,  1854. 
(7).  Joseph  Barzilla  Worth,  born  Oct.  16,  1856. 
(8).  Julia  Ada  Worth,  born  Sept.  22,  1864. 

(2).  Archibald  Carter  Worth,  is  a  graduate  of  Princeton, 
and  now  a  commission  merchant  at  434  Greenwich  Street,  New 
York  City.  Dec.  9,  1869,  he  married  Elizabeth  Anderson,  of 
Fayetteville,  N.  C,  and  has  issue:  Wm.  Anderson  Worth, 
cashier  of  Appomattox  Trust  Co.,  Petersburg,  Va.,  married  Lutie 
Bernard;  Barzillai  Gardner  Worth,  a  graduate  of  Stephens  In- 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  121 

stitute,  Hoboken,  and  is  now  an  electrical  engineer  in  New  York ; 
Dr.  Archibald  Carter  Worth,  a  homeopathic  physician,  of  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  Frederick  Clarkson  Worth,  a  mechanical  engineer,  Cres- 
kill,  New  Jersey;  George  French;  and  John  Browning  Worth, 
both  now  students  at  college.  Thev  had  daughters:  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  Walter  Stillman  Tennefly,  N.  J.;  Jessie  Neman  s ; 
Margaret  Wright,  and  Eunice. 

(3).  Cornelia  MuRphey  Worth,  married  Nov.  28,  1872, 
George  Reade  French,  of  the  firm  of  George  R.  French  &  Sons, 
wholesale  and  retail  shoe  merchants  of  Wilmington.  They  have 
no  issue. 

(4).  William  Elliott  Worth,  is  a  manufacturer  of  ice  and 
cotton  seed  oil  at  Wilmington.  He  married  Nettie  Shey,  of 
Brooklyn,  and  has  no  issue. 

(5).  Mary  Jane  Worth,  married  W.  J.  Woodward,  a  busi- 
ness man  of  Fayetteville,  N.  C.  (now  dead).  They  had  issue: 
Charles  Worth;  Marion;  Eugene;  Isabella  C,  wife  of  Arthur  F. 
Bowen,  of  Raleigh;  Mary  Clara,  wife  of  John  Hazlehurst,  of 
Wilmington  ;  Cornelia ;  Eunice ;  Elizabeth,  and  Emma.  The  sons 
are  in  business  in  Wilmington. 

(6).  Eunice  Virginia  Worth,  married  Jacob  Weller,  a  man- 
ufacturer of  canned  goods  at  Cincinnati.  They  have  issue :  Mary 
Ida,  wife  of  Starr  Walter ;  Barzillai  Worth,  married  Delia  Sowls ; 
Arthur  Douglass  Weller. 

(7).  Joseph  B.  Worth  (deceased),  was  an  ice  manufacturer 
at  Petersburg,  Va.  He  married  Grace  Brink  and  had  issue: 
Jos.  B.,  Jr.,  Wm.  Hoffer,  and  Masie  B.,  wife  of  John  James  Jones, 
of  Craddock  &  Jones,  tobacconists  of  Petersburg. 

(8).  Julia  Ada  Worth,  married  Wm.  Graham  Hessivy  and 
had  one  daughter,  Gladys  Murphey  Hessivy,  of  Wilmington. 

22.  Archibald  Gracie  Carter,  second  son  of  Jesse  Carter,  of 
Caswell,  by  his  first  wife,  Anne  Payne,  was  an  attorney  and  plant- 
er.    He  has  a  grandson,   Mr.  W.   F.   Carter,  a   lawyer   living 


122  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

at  Mt.  Airy,  N.  C,  but  I  have  not  succeeded  in  getting  an  account 
of  his  grandfather's  family. 

23.  Susan  Saterwhite  Carter,  eldest  child  of  Jesse  Carter, 
by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Payne,  married  Robert  Galloway, 
a  very  wealthy  tobacco  planter  of  "Eagle  Falls,"  near  Rocking- 
ham City,  N.  C.     No  other  data  of  her  or  her  descendants. 

24.  Dr.  Jesse  Carter,  the  second  child  and  only  son  of  Jesse 
Carter,  of  Caswell,  by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Payne,  born  in 
July,  1807  in  Caswell,  N.  C,  died  in  Dec,  1884,  in  Mobile, 
Alabama.  He  took  a  bachellor's  degree  from  Chapel  Hill  N.  C, 
and  then  went  to  Philadelphia  for  a  medical  course,  where  he 
was  graduated  with  distinction  in  1830,  after  which  he  was  resi- 
dent physician  at  the  Philadelphia  Alms  House  for  some  time. 
In  1833  he  was  appointed  by  the  governor  as  physician  at  Fort 
Morgan,  Alabama,  and  settled  in  Mobile  for  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  In  1835  he  was  married  to  Mary  Louise  Kennedy, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Wm.  E.  Kennedy,  a  prominent  early  physician  of 
Mobile,  and  connected  with  the  fine  old  French  families  of 
Bienville,  D'Olives  and  Bodin,  who  held  large  grants  of  land  in 
Alabama  from  the  French  crown,  a  part  of  which  is  now  owned 
by  the  children  of  Dr.  Carter.  Dr.  Jesse  and  Mary  L.  Carter 
had  issue:  I.  William  Arthur,  born  in  1836,  of  whom  later; 
II.  Susan  V.  died  a  few  years  ago  unmarried ;  III.  Cecil,  born 
July  17,  1842,  died  June  8,  1903,  unmarried.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  Civil  War  he  remarked  that  it  had  been  said  that  this  was 
a  rich  man's  war  and  a  poor  man's  fight,  and  that  so  far  as  he 
was  concerned  he  would  disprove  it,  so  served  throughout  the 
war  as  a  private  in  the  Mobile  cadets  of  the  3rd  Alabama  Regi- 
ment, Confederate  States  America,  refusing  promotion  several 
times.  After  the  war  he  lived  most  of  the  time  on  his  beauti- 
ful plantation  near  Mobile.  IV.  Mary  E.,  still  living  in  Mobile. 
V.  Jesse  Carter,  living  in  New  York  City,  unmarried.  VI. 
Florence,  living  in  Mobile,  unmarried.  VII.  Braxton  Emmer- 
son,  born  in  1846,  died  May  9,  1909,  in  Mobile,  unmarried. 
A  few  years  ago  Col.  J.  H.  Hawley,  of  Galveston,  Texas,  paid  a 
visit  to  his  cousin,  the  Misses  Carter  of  Mobile,  and  wrote  a 
glowing  account  of  his  delightful  visit  with  these  lovely  old  ladies 


e^s. 


Dr.   Jesse   Carter, 
Mobile,    Alabama. 


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and  of  their  charming  personality,  that  I  regret  I  have  not  at 
hand  to  reproduce  here. 

I.  William  Arthur  Carter,  D.  D.,  is  a  Presbyterian  min- 
ister and  brilliant  classical  scholar,  living  at  Columbia,  S.  C.  At 
the  beginning  of  the  war  he  was  a  private  in  the  Woodruff  Rifles 
of  the  31st  Alabama  Regiment  and  later  became  a  chaplain. 
March  21,  1864,  he  was  married  to  Agnes  Law  Quigley,  by 
whom  he  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters :  (i ) .  William  Alonzo 
Carter,  born  Jan.  12,  1865,  a  lawyer,  and  now  on  the  bench  at 
Tampa,  Florida.  He  married  in  1890  Sarah  Randolph  and  has 
issue:  John  Arthur  Shirley  and  Wm.  A.,  Jr.  (2).  Jesse  Adger, 
born  Feb.  12,  1866,  d.  s.  p.  (3).  Curtis  Braxton  Carter,  born 
Oct.  15,  1867,  at  Columbia,  S.  C.  He  is  now  a  specialist  in 
diseases  of  the  eye,  ear  and  throat  at  105  West  Seventy-first 
street,  New  York  City.  He  married  Elizabeth  Swazy  Miller, 
and  has  one  daughter,  Betty  Miller  Carter.  (4).  Mary  Agnes 
Carter,  born  May  12,  1870,  died  July  I,  1891.  (5).  Edith  Lee 
Carter,  born  July  18,  1874,  married  Charles  Marion  Woolfork 
and  has  issue  Carter  and  Charles  Marion,  Jr. 

25.  Elizabeth  Brown  Carter,  eldest  child  of  Jesse  Carter 
by  his  third  wife,  Sallie  Brown,  married  in  1827  her  cousin, 
Dr.  John  Edmonds  Brown,  a  leading  physician  at  Yanceyville, 
N.  C.  He  was  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina  Legislature  for 
two  sessions.  They  had  issue :  I.  Col.  John  E.,  Jr.,  a  colonel  in 
the  Confederate  Army,  and  after  the  war  an  eminent  attorney  at 
Charlotte,  N.  C.  He  married  Miss  Laura  Morrison,  a  sister 
of  the  second  wife  of  General  Stonewall  Jackson,  who  survives 
him.  No  issue.  II.  William  Carter  Brown,  M.  D.,  of  Mockis- 
ville,  N.  C.  His  wife  was  Anne  Carter.  No  further  data. 
III.  Maj.  Thomas  Jethro  Brown,  a  major  in  the  Confederate 
Army,  and  after  the  war  an  attorney  at  Winston-Salem,  N.  C. 
His  wife  was  Delphine  Hall,  of  Mobile.  IV.  Sallie  Carter 
Brown,  married  Emerson  Hall  of  Mobile,  and  lived  on  the  old 
Brown  plantation,  "Ingleside,"  Lincoln  county,  N.  C.  They  have 
six  children.  No  further  data.  V.  Jessie  Carter  Brown,  married 
J.   M.   McAllister,  a   capitalist,   of   St.   Paul,   Minn.     No  issue. 


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26.  William  Brown  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Jesse  Carter, 
of  Caswell,  born  July  15,  1814,  died  March  4,  1886.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina  and  took  a 
law  course  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  but  preferred  the  life 
of  a  planter  on  his  plantations  at  Madison,  Hiberna  and  at  Mt. 
Pleasant,  Rockingham  county,  N.  C,  to  the  practice  of  law. 
Dec.  12,  1838,  he  was  married  to  Eliza  Galloway  at  "Spring 
Garden,"  the  old  Galloway  home  in  Rockingham  county.  They 
had  issue:  I.  Mary  Galloway  Carter,  born  Aug.  16,  1840,  died 
Dec.  4,  1909.  II.  Sarah  Brown  Carter,  born  Feb.  8,  1842. 
III.  Robert  Galloway  Carter,  born  March  16,  1844,  died  July 
20,  1844.  IV.  William  Brown  Carter,  born  Sept.  8,  1845,  living 
now  at  Winston-Salem,  N.  C.  He  was  a  Confederate  soldier ; 
and  Dec.  12,  1872,  married  Danetta  Hall,  of  Mobile.  They  have 
issue :  Delphine  Hall ;  Betty  Galloway,  married  a  Mr.  Woodruff ; 
Etta  Hall ;  Mary  Galloway,  and  Willie  Euphrazine  Carter. 
V.  Jesse  Carter,  born  Jan.  29,  1848,  married  Etta  Vogln,  of  Salem, 
and  has  issue :  William,  Emma,  Jesse  and  Robert.  VI.  Eliza 
Galloway  Carter,  born  Sept.  5,  1850,  married  Dr.  B.  W.  Montane, 
a  Presbyterian  minister,  and  has  issue :  Mary  Galloway,  William 
Carter  and  Alice.  VIII.  Thomas  Franklin  Carter,  born  April 
2S>  x853,  died  March  13,  1804.  Married  Agnes  Hunt,  of  Milton, 
N.  C. 

Carters  of  "Oakland" — Hopkins  Branch. 

12.  Frances  Carter,  daughter  of  Jesse  Carter,  of  "Oakland," 
it  is  said  by  his  first  wife,  married  October  23,  1793,  James  Hop- 
kins of  Pittsylvania  county,  Va.  He  was  a  son  of  Arthur  Hop- 
kins, Jr.,  and  his  wife,  a  Miss  Jefferson,  said  to  have  been  a 
cousin  of  President  Jefferson,  and  supposed  to  have  been  a  daugh- 
ter of  Field  Jefferson,  of  Lunenburg  county,  Va.,  but  the  Jef- 
ferson records  of  this  county  have  not  been  searched  to  verify 
this.  Arthur  Hopkins,  Jr.,  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Arthur  and  Eliza- 
beth Pettus  Hopkins,  of  Goochland. 


Home  of  Dr.  Jesse  Carter, 
Mobile,   Alabama — 1830. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  125 

Hopkins  Excursus. 

From  Brown's  "The  Cabells  &  Their  Kin,"  and  Woods'  "History  of 
Albemarle  County,"  we  get  the  following  facts  regarding  the  Hopkins 
family. 

Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins,  a  highly  educated  physician,  with  a  degree  from 
Edinburgh,  was  born  in  New  Kent  County,  Va.,  about  1690,  and  married 
in  the  same  county  about  1715  Elizabeth  Pettus,  a  granddaughter  of  "Col. 
Thomas  Pettus,  who  settled  in  Virginia  in  1640,  who  descended  from  Sir 
John  Pettus,  one  of  the  founders  of  Virginia."  In  1731,  "Arthur  Hopkins 
of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Hanover  County,  Virginia,  physician,"  purchased  a 
tract  of  land  in  Goochland  County,  and  soon  after  removed  to  that  county. 
In  1737  he  was  commissioned  a  Justice  of  the  county  court,  and  in  1739- 
'41  High  Sheriff;  he  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  James  parish,  and  in  1752 
commissioned  by  Governor  Dinwiddie,  Colonel  of  the  County  Militia — 
original  commission  is  now  owned  by  Dr.  Arthur  Hopkins  Rice  of  Mis- 
sissippi. Dr.  Hopkins  purchased  other  land  in  Goochland,  and  between 
1734  and  1766  he  had  grants  for  more  than  four  thousand  acres  of  land  in 
Albemarle  County,  in  which  county  his  will,  dated  May  31,  1765,  was  pro- 
bated March  12,  1767.  He  was  survived  by  wife,  Elizabeth,  and  sons  and 
daughters :  Samuel,  John,  Arthur,  William,  Dr.  James,  Lucy,  wife  of 
George  Robinson  of  Pittsylvania ;  Mary,  wife  of  Col.  Joseph  Cabell,  and 
Isabella,  unmarried.  Interesting  accounts  of  these  sons  and  daughters  and 
their  descendants,  many  of  whom  are  among  the  most  distinguished  per- 
sons of  this  country,  will  be  found  in  the  two  books  mentioned. 

James  and  Frances  Carter  Hopkins  had  issue,  one  son,  after 
the  birth  of  whom  the  mother  died : 

35.  Arthur  Francis  Hopkins,  born  Oct.  18,  1794,  in  Pittsyl- 
vania county,  Va.,  died  in  the  spring  of  1865,  at  Mobile,  Alaj. 

In  a  year  or  two  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  James  Hop- 
kins married  her  sister,  Polly  Carter,  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Mary 
Chattin  Carter,  of  Oakland.  They  had  issue  several  children 
of  whom  but  two  grew  to  maturity : 

36.  Robert  Carter  Hopkins,  d.  s.  p. 

37.  Reuben  Hopkins,  who  was  the  heir  of  his  uncle  and  Aunt 
Jeduthan  and  Sarah  Carter,  of  "Mt.  View,"  Pittsylvania.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  was  cashier  of  a  bank  in  Danville,  Va., 
but  after  his  second  marriage  he  sold  his  plantation  and  servants 
and  removed  to  a  western  non-slave-holding  State,  where  he  was 
unfortunate  in  his  investments.     His  first  wife  was  a  native  of 


126       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Pittsylvania,  and  is  said  to  have  had  a  daughter  who  now  has 
descendants  in  Danville.  His  second  wife  was  a  northern  lady 
who  was  teaching  in  Virginia,  and  by  this  marriage  there  was 
a  son,  Holmes,  and  daughters,  Emma,  Elizabeth,  now  a  teacher 
in  the  public  schools  of  Baltimore,  and  Cornelia,  who  married  a 
Mr.  Barnes,  and  is  now  a  widow.  The  three  sisters  now  live 
in  Baltimore  on  Linden  Avenue. 

35.  Arthur  Francis  Hopkins,  was  graduated  at  an  early 
age  from  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C,  and  then  read  law  with  the  dis- 
tinguished lawyer,  William  Leigh,  of  Virginia.  April  6,  1815, 
Arthur  Francis  Hopkins  was  married  to  Pamelia  Thorpe  Mose- 
ley,  of  Bedford  county,  Va.  She  was  born  near  the  foot  of  the 
Peaks  of  Otter,  Feb.  8,  1800,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Arthur 
Moseley  and  his  wife,  Pamelia  Thorpe,  who  was  the  widow 
Crump  when  married  to  Mr.  Moseley.  Arthur  Moseley  had 
sons  Dr.  Bennett  Williamson  Moseley,  of  Lynchburg,  and  Jack 
Moseley,  who  married  and  removed  to  a  plantation  in  Alabama 
or  Mississippi.  Judging  by  the  name  Arthur  and  the  spelling 
of  the  surname,  the  Bedford  Moseleys  were  a  branch  of  the 
Moseley  family  that  settled  originally  in  Norfolk  county,  and  is 
one  of  the  most  ancient  and  honorable  in  Virginia.  The  Tide- 
water Moseleys  have  a  collection  of  very  fine  old  family  por- 
traits, silver,  etc.     No  genealogy  of  this  family  has  appeared. 

Between  1816  and  1818  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hopkins  removed  from 
Virginia  to  northern  Alabama,  where  they  purchased  a  planta- 
tion near  Moulton,  in  which  town  Mr.  Hopkins  opened  his  law 
office.  He  practiced  here  about  two  years  and  then  removed 
to  Huntsville,  where  he  remained  until  1843,  and  then  removed 
to  the  larger  city  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  but  the  water  and  climate 
disagreeing  with  him  and  his  family  so  much,  he  returned  to 
Alabama  and  settled  in  Mobile  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  first  Constitutional  Convention  of  Alabama,  and 
was  the  first  chief  justice  of  the  Alabama  Supreme  Court.  A 
very  fine  portrait  of  him  hangs  in  the  Supreme  Court  room  at 
Montgomery,  and  his  descendants  own  several  other  portraits 
and  miniatures  painted  at  different  ages.  Besides  his  law  practice 
he  was  largely  interested  in  cotton  plantations  and  other  enter- 


Judge  A.   F.  Hopkins,   (from  a  miniature). 
First  judge  of   Supreme   Court   of  Alabama. 


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prises  in  Alabama  and  Mississippi,  and  was  president  of  the 
Mobile  &  Ohio  R.  R.  It  was  said  of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Hopkins : 
"He  was  equal  and  true  to  every  duty  in  life,  brainy  and  chival- 
rous, and  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church.  She  was  tall  and 
beautiful,  a  loving  wife,  devoted  mother,  firm  friend,  charming 
hostess,  kind  mistress,  and  a  sweet  Christian."  They  had  issus 
thirteen   children : 

38.  Arthur  Moseley  Hopkins,  born  July  14,  1816,  died  March 
21,    1866,  in   Manchester,   England. 

39.  A  son,  born  Sept.  28,  1817,  and  died  same  year. 

40.  Corinne  Frances,  born  Nov.  5,  1818,  died  in  1820. 

41.  Maria  Malinda,  born  Oct.  26,  1820,  died  in  1880. 

42.  James,  born  April  27,  1823,  died  in  1824. 

43.  Elizabeth  Pamelia,  born  Jan.  26,   1825,  died  in   1834. 

44.  Louisa,  born  Nov.  26,  1825,  died  in  1853. 

45.  Cornelia  Carter,  born  Nov.  14,  1828,  died  in  1904. 

46.  Augusta,  born  Jan.  13,  1831,  died  in  1906. 

47.  Mary  Moseley,  born  Jan.  10,  1834,  died  in  1864. 

48.  Virginia,  born  Jan.  2J,  1836,  died  in  1839. 

49.  Catharine  Erskine,  born  July  18,  1838. 

50.  William  Leigh,  born  March  9,  1841,  died  in  1873. 

Oct.  4,  1852,  Mrs.  Pamelia  Moseley  Hopkins  died  on  their 
plantation  in  Hinds  county,  Miss.,  and  a  year  later  her  remains 
were  removed  to  Mobile. 

Nov.  7,  1854,  Judge  Hopkins  married  Mrs.  Juliet  A.  Gordon, 
widow  of  a  Captain  Gordon  of  the  United  States  Army,  and 
daughter  of  Hiram  Lindsey  Opie,  of  Jefferson  county,  Va.  He 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev.  David  Lindsey,  and  his  grand- 
son, Capt.  Thomas  Opie,  who  were  buried  in  the  same  grave  in 
Northumberland  county,  Va.  Mrs.  Juliet  Hopkins  was  known 
as  the  "Florence  Nightingale  of  the  South."  At  the  beginning 
of  the  war  she  sold  all  her  property  in  New  York,  Virginia  and 
Alabama,  amounting  to  about  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and 
gave  the  proceeds  to  the  Confederate  government  for  the  hospital 
service,  and  enlisted  as  a  nurse  herself.  She  was  appointed  chief 
matron  of  the  Hospital  Corps  and  had  special  charge  of  the 
Alabama  Division.     Her  family  still  have  many  letters  to  her 


128  GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTEK  FAMILY 

from  General  Lee,  some  of  them  in  cypher,  notifying*  her  of 
the  movement  of  his  army  and  advising  her  as  to  when  and 
where  her  services  might  be  needed.  She  was  wounded  twice — 
once  when  caring  for  a  wounded  Federal  soldier  on  the  battlefield, 
and  again  while  helping  to  amputate  the  leg  of  a  Confederate 
soldier  in  a  field  hopital  near  Richmond,  she  was  shot  in  the 
hip,  which  made  her  lame  for  the  rest  of  her  life.  Her  portrait 
appears  on  the  twenty-five  cent  note  of  the  Alabama  issue  of 
Confederate  currency ;  and  after  the  war,  ex-Governor  Oates 
tried  to  get  a  bill  through  the  legislature  to  place  a  portrait  of 
her  at  the  State's  expense  in  the  capital  at  Montgomery.  Mrs. 
Hopkins  died  in  Washington  at  the  home  of  her  uncle,  Gen. 
Romayn  Ayers,  and  was  buried  in  Arlington  cemetery  with 
military  honors.  Judge  Hopkins  had  no  children  by  his  second 
marriage. 

38.  Arthur  Moseley  Hopkins,  eldest  child  of  Judge  Hopkins, 
was  a  highly  educated  gentleman,  and  a  very  handsome  man,  as 
shown  by  his  minature  reproduced  herewith.  Having  plenty  of 
means  he  was  engaged  in  no  particular  business.  About  the  close 
of  the  war  he  went  to  England  and  died  there  near  Manchester, 
in  March,  1866.  July  19,  1837,  he  was  married  to  Eliza  P.  Bibb, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Thomas  Bibb,  second  Governor  of  Alabama, 
and  neice  of  the  first  Governor,  Hon.  Wm.  W.  Bibb. 

Bibb  Excursus. 

The  data  given  here  of  the  Bibb  family  is  taken  from  the  Virginia  His- 
torical Magazine  for  April,  1910,  Miss  Hardy's  "Colonial  Families  of  the 
Southern  States,"  and  the  Times-Dispatch  Genealogical  Columns  for  Sep- 
tember 20,  1908,  and  October  23,  1910. 

The  first  of  the  Bibbs  in  Virginia  seems  to  have  been  Benjamin  Bibb, 
who  had  sons  William,  James  and  Thomas.  William  Bibb  had  a  son  John 
Bibb  of  Hanover  County,  born  in  1703  (Bible  Records),  who  married  Su- 
sanna Bigger,  and  besides  several  daughters  had  three  sons — William, 
Richard,  and  Thomas.  John  Bibb  had  the  following  grants  of  land  in  that 
part  of  Amelia  which  later  became  Prince  Edward  County:  Sept.  12,  1738, 
800  acres;  July  10,  1745,  1,200  acres;  Augt.  10,  1759,  159  acres.  William 
r>nd  Richard  Bibb  settled  on  their  father's  land  on  the  South  Fork  of  Buf- 
falo River,  Prince  Edward  County,  and  in   1782  the  land  books  of  that 


Mrs.  Augusta  Hopkins  Rice, 

Capt.  John  W-  Rice   (Mexican  War). 

(Cameos  cut  in   1851  by   Saulini,  Florence.   Italy). 


Arthur    Moseley    Hopkins, 
Mobile,  Ala. 
Eliza  P.  B.  Hopkins,  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  Bibb. 
(Miniatures   about    1838). 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE   CARTER  FAMILY  129 

county  show  that  Richard  Bibb  owned  600  acres  of  land,  and  William  Bibb 
1,602  acres. 

Richard  Bibb  was  a  major  in  the  Revolution,  and  after  the  war  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Virginia  Legislature.  In  1799  he  removed  to  Logan  County,  Ky., 
where  he  purchased  large  tracts  of  land.  Later  he  manumitted  his  slaves, 
about  fifty  in  number,  and  colonized  them  in  Liberia.  Richard  Bibb  mar- 
ried Lucy  Booker,  and  their  eldest  son  was  Chief  Justice  of  the  Kentucky 
Supreme  Court,  U.  S.  Senator,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President 
Tyler,  etc. 

William  Bibb,  spoken  of  as  "Capt.  Wm.  Bibb,"  was  probably  an  officer 
in  the  Revolution.  In  1775  he  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety, 
and  a  few  years  later  High  Sheriff  of  Prince  Edward  County.  After  the 
Revolution  he  removed  to  Elbert  County,  Georgia.  In  1779  Capt-  William 
Bibb  married  Sallie  Wyatt  (born  in  1762),  daughter  of  Col.  Joseph  and 
Dorothy  Peyton  Wyatt  of  New  Kent  County.  They  had  issue :  Wm.  Wyatt 
Bibb,  born  Oct.  1,  1780,  died  July  9,  1820, — graduated  from  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  in  1801 ;  served  in  both  Houses  of  the  Georgia  Legislature ; 
member  of  Congress,  i8o7-'i3;  TJ.  S.  Seriate,  1816;  first  Governor  of  Ala- 
bama, i8i7-'i9,  etc.  Thomas  Bibb,  born  in  Prince  Edward  Co.,  Va-,  in 
1784,  died  in  Alabama,  Dec.  24,  1840, — was  first  president  of  the  Senate  of 
Alabama,  and  in  1820  succeeded  his  brother  as  governor  of  that  State.  He 
married  Pamelia  Thompson,  and  bad  issue :  Thomas,  Jr.,  born  1813,  died 
1861 ;  and  Eliza  P.,  who  married  in  1837  Arthur  Mosely  Hopkins,  eldest 
son  of  the  first  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Alabama. 

Arthur  Moseley  Hopkins  and  his  wife,  Eliza  Bibb,  had  issue 
thirteen  children:  (1).  Maria  Isabella,  born  September  7,  1838, 
died  20  days  later.  (2).  Arthur  Francis,  born  August  9,  1840, 
died  May  11,  1844.  (3).  John  Walker,  born  July  22,  1842,  died 
Sept.  27,  1 89 1.  (4).  Thomas  Bibb,  Sept.  11,  1844,  died  Nov. 
27,  1904.  (5).  Arthur  Moseley,  born  Feb.  17,  1846,  died  April 
6,  1854.  (6).  Bessie  Moseley,  born  June  1,  1849,  died  Jan.  13, 
1882.  (7).  Sallie  Barnett,  born  Sept.  7,  1850,  died  Dec.  13,  1877. 
(8).  Frances  Carter,  born  Nov.  8,  185 1,  died  Jan.  30,  1867. 
(9).  and  (10).  Twins,  James  B.  and  William,  born  May  4, 
1854.  William  died  Oct.  30,  same  year.  (11).  Porter,  bom 
Aug.  12,  1855,  died  June  9,  1861.  (12).  Frank  Webb,  born  Oct. 
23>  l857>  living  at  Birmingham,  Ala.  (13).  Robert  Thompson, 
born  Sept.  19,  i860,  living  at  Nashville. 

(3).  John  Walker  Hopkins,  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  7th  Ala- 
bama Regiment,  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  after  the  war 


^o       GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

was  a  merchant  in  northern  Alabama  until  he  removed  to  Nash- 
ville in  1878,  where  he  was  a  cotton  broker.  April  17,  1866,  he 
was  married  to  Anne  Cox  and  had  issue:  John  Walker,  Jr.,  born 
Aug.  29,  1867,  died  June  30,  1887;  Lizzie  May,  born  May  15,  1870, 
died  in  Nashville  April  24,  1900.  She  married  Duncan  Harding-, 
of  Nashville,  and  has  a  son,  Philip  Hopkins  Harding;  Arthur 
Moseley  born  May  19,  1873,  married  in  1894  Frances  Bang  and 
has  John  Walker,  Arthur  M.,  Jr.,  Wra.  Frances  and  Anna  Mary ; 
Ellie  Cale,  born  Aug.  19,  1876,  died  Sept.  3,  1899 — married  Fred- 
erick Prescott,  of  Boston ;  left  no  issue ;  Charles  Thomas,  born 
Oct.  14,  1870,  died  March  4,  1883;  Anne  Margaret,  born  Oct.  15, 
i'S83  ;  Thornton,  born  June  15,  1887. 

(4).  Thomas  Bibb  Hopkins,  was  in  Frank  Curtey's  Confed- 
erate Cavalry,  and  after  the  war  was  a  merchant  in  northern 
Alabama  until  1893,  when  he  went  to  Nashville.  He  was  married 
on  Oct.  15,  1872,  to  Virginia,  daughter  of  Dr.  Algernon  Sidney 
Harris.  She  died  in  Sept.,  1907.  They  had  issue:  Frances 
Carter  Hopkins,  born  Dec,  1873,  married  Dec.  1,  1896,  Vernon 
Leake  and  had  Jennie  and  Vernon,  Jr.  Lived  and  died  at  Guthrie, 
Ky.    And  Tom  Harris  Hopkins,  born  Nov.  1,  1875,  died  in  1890. 

(9).  James  B.  Hopkins,  a  hardware  merchant  at  Birmingham, 
Ala.  June  26,  1879,  he  was  married  to  Madeline,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Wm.  Tell  Saunders.  She  died  Jan.  28,  1894.  They  had 
issue:  Annie  Elise,  born  April  7,  1880,  married  May  31,  1905, 
Henry  J.  Certain,  a  Huntsville,  Alabama  merchant ;  Bessie  Mose- 
ley, born  June  1,  1882,  married  Dec.  22,  1901,  Charles  Small;  and 
Gertrude,  born  Oct.  12,  1884,  died  in  1910.  James  B.  Hopkins 
was  married  the  second  time  on  April  20,  1898,  to  Molly  A 
Baker. 

(12).  Frank  Webb  Hopkins,  a  real  estate  agent  and  coal  and 
timber  broker  of  Birmingham,  was  married  on  Nov.  21,  1882,  to 
Mary  O.  Harris,  daughter  of  Thomas  Harris.  They  have  issue : 
Tom  Harris,  born  Sept.  30,  1883,  married  in  Nov.  1907,  a 
daughter  of  John  B.  Floyd ;  Sallie,  born  Nov.  10,  1884,  died 
1885  :  Lucile,  born  and  died  in  1886  ;  Arthur  Francis,  born  Sept. 
18,  1887;  Dora,  born  1888,  died  1894;  Jennie,  born  Jan.  12,  1891 ; 
Dudley,  born  June  27,  1894;  Leroy,  born  Aug.  18.  1895;  Mary 


Robert   Thompson    Hopkins, 


Home  of   Judge   A.    F.    Hopkins, 
Mobile,   Alabama. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  131 

Phillips,  born  Dec.  23,  1896;  Charles  Drennan,  born  April  14, 
1899;  Frank  Webb,  Jr.,  born  April  14,  1899  (twins)  ;  Cornelia 
Lowe,  born  July  12,  1901. 

(13).  Robert  Thompson  Hopkins,  cashier  of  the  Phillips,  But- 
torf  Mfg.  Co,,  Nashville,  married  Oct.  17,  1888,  Ada  Love  Mar- 
tin, daughter  of  Charles  E.  Martin  of  Nashville.  She  died  Feb. 
24,  1906,  and  Feb.  12,  1908,  he  married  Jennie  Maitland  French, 
daughter  of  Col.  Napoleon  B.  French,  of  Virginia.  He  had  issue 
by  first  marriage:  Martin  Armstrong,  born  Oct.  23,  1889;  Robert 
Thompson,  Jr.,  born  Dec.  24,  1890;  Sallie  Maddin,  born  May  10, 
1892  ;  Irene,  born  Feb.  21,  1894,  died  March  31,  1895  ;  Ada  Love, 
born  Jan.  31,  1898;  Douglas,  born  Aug.  26,  1900,  died  July  7, 
1901 ;  Leslie  Lyon,  born  Aug.  6,  1902. 

41.  Maria  Malinda  Hopkins  (born  1820),  spent  four  or  five 
years  in  Europe,  mostly  in  France  and  Germany,  at  school  and 
traveling.  She  married  John  J.  Walker,  a  prominent  lawyer  of 
Mobile,  Ala.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Creek  War,  and  a  major 
of  General  Bragg's  staff  in  the  Civil  War.    They  had  no  children. 

44.  Louisa  HoPKiNs'(born  1825),  married  George  P.  Blevins, 
a  lawyer  of  Selma,  Ala.  They  had  issue:  (1).  Arthur,  died 
infant.  (2).  Joseph,  died  infant.  (3).  Louisa,  or  "Queenie," 
born  1 85 1,  was  finely  educated  in  this  country  and  the  last  two 
years  of  school,  in  Paris,  France.  She  married  in  1869  Robert 
C.  Crawford,  a  cotton  merchant  of  Mobile,  and  had  issue :  Maria 
Walker,  Kate  Anderson,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy;  James, 
born  in  1875,  now  a  merchant  at  El  Paso,  Texas,  where  he  married 
in  1903  Mary  Mahoney;  Maud  Louise.  (4).  Llewellyn,  born 
in  1853,  is  a  lawyer  and  lives  in  Texas.  He  spent  three  years  in 
France  and  two  in  Germany  finishing  his  education.     In  1877  he 

married  Minnie  ,  and  has  issue :    George  Phillips,  John 

Walker,  Arthur  Hopkins,  Elizabeth  and  Robert  Blevins. 

45.  Cornelia  Carter  FIopkins  (born  1828),  spent  several 
years  in  Europe,  and  then  married  Henry  A.  Lowe,  an  English 
cotton  merchant  of  Mobile,  who  was  born  in  Liverpool.  He  lived 
and  died  in  Mobile,  but  held  his  allegiance  to  the  English  crown. 
They  had  issue:     Maria  Walker  Lowe,  died  infant,  and  Henry 


132       GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

A.  Lowe,  Jr.,  a  Mobile  hardware  merchant.  He  was  educated  in 
Paris  and  Versailles,  France.  In  1886  he  married  Annie  Hughes 
and  died  in  1896,  without  surviving  issue. 

46.  Augusta  Hopkins  (born  1831),  married  in  1851  John 
W.  Rice,  a  lawyer,  born  in  Chester  District,  South  Carolina,  and 
died  in  Mobile  in  1857.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  13th  Infantry, 
United  States  Army,  in  the  Mexican  War.  They  spent  a  year 
abroad  on  their  bridal  tour,  and  while  in  Florence  had  beautiful 
cameo  miniatures  of  themselves  cut  by  Saulini,  which  are  repro- 
duced in  this  work.  Besides  the  European  countries,  they  visited 
Egypt,  and  expected  to  go  on  to  Palestine,  but  Mrs.  Rice  pre- 
ferring the  overland  route — like  the  Israelites — they  missed  the 
once  a  month  boat  by  the  water  way.  One  night  in  the  desert 
with  its  Bedouin  camps,  peculiar  moonlight  and  countless  millions 
of  fleas,  was  sufficient,  so  they  fled  back  to  the  flesh  pots  of 
Egypt,  and  later  on  to  Europe.  After  the  death  of  her  husband 
she  spent  five  years  in  France  and  Germany  for  the  education 
of  her  son  and  daughter.  They  had  issue:  (1).  Arthur  Hop- 
kins Rice,  born  in  Aug.,  1852.  He  is  a  physician  and  lives  at 
Starkeville,  Miss.  In  1880  married  Fannie  M.  Smith,  and  has 
issue:  Augusta  Hopkins,  born  1881 ;  Arthur  Hopkins,  Jr.,  born 
1885;  Nannie  Herndon,  born  1886;  Joseph  Smith,  born  1888; 
Cornelia  Lowe,  born  1891 ;  John  Washington,  born  1895,  and 
Harriet  McFarland,  born  1897.  (2).  Nannie  Herndon  Rice,  born 
in  July,  1854,  married  in  1875,  Jonn  Simpson  Walker,  a  civil 
engineer,  Nashville,  Tenn.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been 
connected  with  the  United  States  government  improvements  on 
the  Cumberland  River.  They  have  issue  one  son,  Richard  Wilder 
Walker,  "a  six  foot  Viking,"  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  United 
States  Army  in  the  Phillipines,  but  now  (1911)  on  sick  leave  in 
the  United  States.  During  the  Spanish-American  War,  while  he 
was  a  sergeant  in  the  37th  Infantry,  he  distinguished  himself  at 
Muntinglupa  by  going  alone  in  a  leaky  boat  with  three  Filipino 
prisoners  as  oarsmen,  twelve  miles  to  bring  reinforcements  and 
ammunition  to  his  entrapped  command.  The  whole  distance  he 
bailed  water  with  one  hand  and  held  a  cocked  pistol  on  his  oars- 


Lieutenant  Richard  Wilder  Walker,  U.   S-  A. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  133 

men  with  the  other.  He  was  fired  on  twice  from  shore,  but  not 
struck.  Once  when  one  of  the  men  became  obstreperous  he 
clubbed  him  into  submission  with  his  pistol  rather  than  alarm  the 
country  by  shooting.  He  got  reinforcements  to  Maj.  F.  B. 
Cheatham  and  his  command  when  they  had  but  a  couple  of  rounds 
of  ammunition  left.  In  1904  he  married  Alice  Green  way  Patton, 
and  has  one  daughter,  Elizabeth  Patton  Walker. 

47.  Mary  Moseley  Hopkins  (born  1834),  married  William 
Barnewall,  born  in  New  York  of  Irish  parents.  He  proved  his 
right  to  the  title  of  Lord  Thimberton  of  Ireland,  but  preferred  to 
live  in  America.  He  was  a  major  on  the  staff  of  General  Hardee 
in  the  Civil  War.  They  had  a  daughter,  Maria  Walker,  who 
died  in  infancy. 

49.  Catharine  Erskine  Hopkins  (born  1838),  married 
Starke  H.  Oliver,  a  Mobile  merchant,  and  a  colonel  in  Gen.  Pat 
Claiborne's  Division,  Confederate  States  Army.  They  had  is- 
sue: 1.  John  Walker,  born  1865,  married  Etta  Hooks  in  1897, 
and  has  issue : :  John  W.,  Jr.,  Henry  Lowe,  Etta  and  Catharine. 
(2).  Samuel  W.,  born  1867,  has  two  sons.  (3).  Arthur  Hopkins, 
born  1869.  (4).  Henry,  born  1873.  (5).  Percy,  born  1875, 
married  Margaret  Walker  in  1903  and  has  one  daughter,  Margaret. 
(6).  Catharine  Hopkins,  born  1877,  married  in  1901,  Arthur 
A.  Hall,  and  has  one  son,  Oliver  Hopkins.  (7).  Cecil,  born  i< 
has  three  sons.  (8).  Starke  H.,  Jr.,  eldest  son,  born  1862- 
( omitted  at  the  proper  place). 


Carters  of  "Oakland" — Other  Branches. 

13.  Margaret  Carter  (Jesse  9),  was  married  in  1787  to 
Samuel  Thompson,  of  Pittsylvania.  They  had  issue :  Jesse, 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  uncle,  Jesse  Carter,  of  Caswell,  N.  C. 
Samuel,  Jr.,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Lucy 
Parke  Hutchings,  and  had  issue  Moses,  Elizabeth  and  Margaret. 
Samuel  and  Margaret  Carter  Thompson  may  have  had  other 
children,  but  I  have  no  data  of  same. 


134 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  GARTER  FAMILY 


14.  Sarah  Carter  (9  Jesse),  married  her  father's  first  cousin, 
Jeduthan  Carter,  of  "Mt.  View,"  Pittsylvania.  They  had  no 
children,  and  this  beautiful  place,  with  several  negroes  and  other 
property,  was  bequeathed  to  their  nephew,  Reuben  Hopkins. 

15.  Thomas  Chattan  Carter  (9  Jesse),  married  his  first 
cousin,  Elizabeth  Carter,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Winifred 
Carter,  of  "Green  Rock."  His  will  probated  in  Pittsylvania  Jan. 
15,  1 82 1,  left  a  good  estate  to  the  following  children:  Sarah; 
Winifred  H.,  married  in  1830  Obediah  Fountaine ;  Alary  Miller ; 
Miller  Carter,  who  had  wife,  Elizabeth,  and  daughter,  Elizabeth, 
in  1 82 1,  and  later  removed  to  the  west ;  Jesse ;  and  Thomas. 

16.  Joseph  Carter  (9  Jesse),  inherited  from  his  father  "Oak- 
land" and  eight  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  the  home  plantation 
on  Bannister  River,  half  a  dozen  negroes  and  other  property.  His 
will  was  probated  Sept.  13,  1838.  He  married  Nancy  Robinson, 
and  had  two  children:  I.  Jesse;  II.  Mary.  I.  Jesse  Carter 
married  Lucy  Neale,  and  had  issue:  (1).  Celeste,  born  in  1834, 
died  1856.  (2).  Nellie.  (3).  Mary,  married  first  a  Mr.  Pen- 
nick,  and  second,  Rev.  Mr.  Petty,  and  had  a  daughter,  Mamie. 
(4).  Robert  Carter,  who  inherited  "Oakland." 

(1).  Celeste  Carter,  married  about  1850  Dr.  John  M.  Hutch- 
ings;  died  April  5,  1887.  Son  of  John  and  Anne  B.  Williams 
Hutchings  and  grandson  of  Moses  and  Lucy  Parke  Hutchings. 
Dr.  John  and  Celeste  Carter  Hutchings  had  two  sons : 

a.  Chesley,  who  married  a  Miss  Wiley,  and  had  Philip,  Lena 
and  Chesley,  Jr. 

b.  John  R.,  born  May  14,  1854,  head  of  the  firm  of  John  R. 
Hutchings  &  Co.,  tobacconists,  Danville,  Va.  May  5,  1880,  he 
was  married  in  Danville  to  Sue  R.  Doe,  daughter  of  Thomas  B. 
and  Sarah  Ross  Doe,  and  niece  of  Sam  Rose  Doe  and  niece  of 
Judge  Charles  Doe,  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  They 
have  two  daughters,  Lucy  A.  and  Sue  D.  Hutchings.  Dr.  John 
Hutchings  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A. 

(4).  Robert  Carter,  of  "Oakland,"  married  a  Miss  Townes 
and  had  five  sons:  a.  Jesse,  married  a  Miss  Townes  and  had 
Jesse  Lawson,  present  owner  of  "Oakland,"  who  married  Mary 


Mr    ^ND  Mrs.  James  Carter,  and  Son,  James   S.   Carter,   Chatham,  Va. 
•Greenrock."  1784.     Built  by  Thomas  Carter,  great  grandfather  of  James  Carter. 


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Diam,  of  Maryland;  Robert,  married  a  Miss  Williams,  and 
George,  married  a  Miss  Carter,  b.  Robert,  who  also  married  a 
Miss  Townes,  and  had  sons  James,  Benjamin  and  Stephen, 
c.  Reuben,     d.  Thomas,  and  e.  William. 

II.  Mary  Carter,  married  on  Dec.  2,  1824,  Robert  Hutchings, 
son  of  Moses  and  Lucy,  a  wealthy  planter  of  Pittsylvania  county, 
and  owned  what  was  probably  the  first  piano  in  the  county. 
They  had  one  daughter,  Anne  Laura,  who  married  her  first  cousin, 
Wm.  Hutchings,  and  removed  to  Georgia,  and  had  two  children, 
John  and  Anne  Laura,  married  a  Mr.  Camp. 

18.  John  Carter  (9.  Jesse),  of  "Sandy  River,"  Pittsylvania, 
married  a  Miss  Riger  and  had  issue:  I.  Jesse  of  "Sandy  River," 
a  wealthy  bachelor.  II.  Mary.  III.  Sarah.  IV.  John,  had 
sons  Thomas  and  Christopher.  V.  Frances,  married  Nathaniel 
Royall  and  had  three  children :  ( 1 ) .  Bettie,  who  married  Thomas 
Carter,  of  "Swansonville,"  and  had  Emma,  May,  married  Wm. 
Cousins,  and  Ada.  (2).  Sally,  married  a  Mr.  Swanson.  (3). 
Jesse  Royall,  married  a  Miss  Graves. 

Carter,   of   "Greenrock,"    Pittsylvania. 

Thomas  Carter  (Thos.3,  Thos.  2,  Thos.  1),  born  at  "Barford," 
Lancaster  county,  Nov.  27,  1734,  died  at  "Greenrock,"  Pittsyl- 
vania, July  15,  1817. 

In  1760  he  sold  his  land  in  Lancaster  and  removed  with  his 
brother,  Jesse,  to  the  land  they  had  inherited  from  their  father, 
in  Cumberland  county.  Here  Thomas  Carter  married,  July  10, 
1764,  Winifred  Hobson,  eldest  daughter  of  Adcock  and  Joana 
Lawson  Hobson.  She  was  born  July  15,  1745,  in  Northumber- 
land county,  and  died  Dec.  3,  1831,  in  Pittsylvania. 

Hobson  and  Lawson  Excursus. 

Adcock  Hobson  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  grandson  of  Thomas  Hob- 
son, who  was  clerk  of  Northumberland  for  the  long  period  of  fifry-two 
years — 1664  to  1716.  July  30,  1741,  Adcock  Hobson  married  in  Richmond 
County,  Joana,  eldest  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Lawson,  born  March 
17,  1721,  and  had  issue:  John,  born  Oct.  31,  1742;  Winifred,  born  July  15, 
1745;  Thomas,  born  Jan.  11,  1746;  William,  b.  Sept.  7,  1748;  Caleb,  born 


136       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Tiny  15,  1751 — all  born  in  Northumberland;  and  Lawson,  Lucy,  Edward 
?nd  Elizabeth,  born  in  Richmond  and  Cumberland  counties.  Joana  Lawson 
Hobson's  mother,  Mary  Lawson,  died  July  16,  1740,  and  her  father's  will 
was  prob.  in  Richmond  County,  Feb.  2,  1761.  They  had  issue:  Christopher 
Lawson,  whose  will,  prob.  in  Sept.,  1772,  names  wife  Sarah,  and  children 
John,  Betty  Digges,  Epaphroditus,  Joana,  Katy  and  Lucy ;  Elizabeth,  born 
Feb.  17,  1719,  wife  of  a  Mr.  Barber  in  1758;  Joana,  wife  of  Adcock  Hob- 
son,  and  Catharine,  wife  of  Isaac  White,  twins,  born  March  17,  1721 ; 
Lucy,  born  March  3,  1732,  married  George  Booker  after  1758. 

The  parentage  of  John  Lawson  of  Richmond  County,  but  the  names  of 
his  children  and  grandchildren  show  positively  that  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Lawson  family  of  Lancaster  County,  which  is  descended  from  Row- 
land Lawson,  the  elder  of  three  brothers — Rowland,  Richard,  and  Epaphro- 
ditus— w:ho  came  to  Virginia  prior  to  1637,  when  Epaphroditus  Lawson 
had  a  grant  of  1,400  acres  of  land  for  their  transportation.  Between  1649- 
1656  they  had  large  grants  of  land  in  Lancaster  and  Gloucester  counties. 
Richard  settled  in  Gloucester,  and  died  prior  to  1662.  He  was  probably 
the  ancestor  of  the  Middlesex  Lawsons.  Epaphroditus  and  Rowland  set- 
tled in  Lancaster;  the  former  died  in  Lancaster  in  1652,  and  seems  to  have 
left  but  one  child,  a  daughter,  who  married  Robert  Davis.  Rowland  Law- 
son  was  a  justice  of  the  Lancaster  court,  1652-1656.  His  will,  probated 
May  8,  1661,  names  wife  Letitia  (named  in  the  head  rights  in  1637)  and 
children:  Rowland,  Jr.,  a  justice  of  Lancaster,  1684,  died  in  1706,  leaving 
sons  Rowland  3rd.  (died  1717),  Henry  and  John;  Elizabeth;  Henry;  and 
John,  who  died  prior  to  1703,  leaving  sons  John,  Jr.,  and  Epaphroditus,  and 
daughter  Elizabeth.  Rowland  Lawson  II. 's  will  in  1706  bears  a  seal  show- 
ing a  chevron  between  three  martlets.  Burke  gives  the  arms  of  the  Lawsons 
of  Brough  Hall,  Yorkshire,  and  of  Cramington,  Northumberland,  as — Arg. 
a  chevron,  between  three  martlets  sable.  See  Mr.  W.  G.  Stanard's  inter- 
esting notes  of  the  Lawsons  in  Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  Vol.  IV. 

After  their  marriage  Thomas  and  Winifred  Hobson  Carter 
lived  in  Cumberland  county  until  1783,  when  he  purchased  467 
acres  of  land  in  Pittsylvania  known  as  "Green  Rock."  Here  he 
built  a  log  house,  and  in  1787  a  frame  house,  which  was  consid- 
ered very  fine  at  that  time,  part  of  which  is  yet  standing.  In 
1 797- 1 798  and  1802  Thomas  Carter,  Sr.,  had  grants  for  1,193 
acres  of  land  in  Pittsylvania.  In  the  census  of  1782  there  were  ten 
white  members  of  his  family  and  seven  servants. 

His  great,  great  granddaughter,  Mrs.  N.  E.  Clement,  Chatham, 
Ya.,  has  given  me  great  assistance  in  collecting  data  of  this  family. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  137 

She  tells  an  interesting  story,  as  follows :  "YVinif red  Hob- 
son  Carter  became  converted  to  Methodism  in  Cumberland 
county,  but  found  no  Methodist  church  in  Pittsylvania.  She  knew 
Bishop  Asbury  and  wrote  him  to  stop  at  her  house  in  his  journey- 
ings  north  and  south.  At  his  coming  she  notified  the  people  of  the 
county,  who  gathered  at  her  home  to  hear  the  bishop  preach. 
Bishop  Asbury  was  a  man  of  low  statue,  so  in  order  to  address 
the  crowd,  called  for  something  to  stand  on.  The  most  conven- 
ient thing  at  the  time  was  one  of  Thomas  Carter's  liquor  cases. 
They  are  stoutly  built,  covered  with  leather  and  lined  with  velvet, 
and  are  now  owned  by  Mr.  Scott  Carter,  Chatham,  Ya.  The 
bishop  preached  from  the  liquor  case  and  Thomas  afterwards 
teased  his  wife  so  much  that  before  another  visit  from  the  bishop 
she  had  a  small  pulpit  built  in  her  parlor."  Later  Thomas  Carter 
gave  a  piece  of  land  called  the  "Bold  Spring  Tract"  for  the  erec- 
tion of  the  first  Methodist  church  in  Pittsylvania. 

Thomas  Carter's  will,  dated  Sept.  16,  1803,  probated  Aug.  18, 
1 81 7,  divided  a  good  estate  between  wife  and  children.  The 
personal  estate  included  books,  a  large  set  of  pink  rose  china, 
two  sets  of  large  silver  spoons  and  six  sets  of  small  ones,  besides 
a  good  lot  of  furniture,  negroes,  etc. 

Thomas  Carter's  old  Bible,  now  owned  by  Mr.  Hill  Carter  Lin- 
thicum,  a  prominent  architect,  of  Durham,  N.  C,  records  the 
following  children : 

51.  Joana  Carter,  born  Aug.    15,  1766,  died  in  July,   1809. 

52.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  June  21,  1768,  married  her  first 
cousin  Thos.  C.  Carter,  son  of  Jesse  Carter,  of  "Oakland." 

53.  Sarah  Carter,  born  Feb.  17,  1773,  died  Dec.  25,  1805. 

54.  Edward  Carter,  born  March  8,  1775,  died  Sept.  18,  1843. 

55.  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  born  March  8,  1777,  died  in  Oct.  1852. 

56.  Jeduthan  Carter,  born  March  22,  1779. 

57.  Lawson  Hobson  Carter,  born  June  13,  1781. 

58.  Christopher  Lawson  Carter,  born  Feb.  7,  1784,  died  Oct. 
7,  i860. 

59.  Dale  Miller  Carter,  born  March  17,  1786,  died  Sept.  8,  1796. 

60.  Raleigh  Williamson  Carter,  born  Feb.  8,  1788,  died  Oct. 
18,  1847. 


138  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

6l.  Jesse  Carter,  eldest  son  (omitted  above),  born  Nov.  30, 
1770,  married  a  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Lillie,  and  had  sons,  William, 
Robert  and  Henry  Clay  Carter. 

54.  Edward  Carter,  married  Nancy  Allen,  died  March  15, 
1832,  and  had  issue:  (1).  Anne  G.  Carter,  born  in  June,  1816, 
died  Jan.  23,  1870;  (2).  Elizabeth  Carter,  married  John  C.  Royall, 
and  died  in  1855;  (3).  Winifred,  married  a  Mr.  Boaz,  and  died 
in  1855;  (4).  Joseph  Carter;  (5).  Edward  Carter,  Jr.,  married 
a  Miss  Morton.  (1).  Anne  G.  Carter,  married  David  S.  Lanier, 
a  wealthy  Pittsylvania  planter,  born  June  25,  1813,  died  March 
20,  1878,  and  had  issue:  a.  John  E.,  married  Oct.  2,  1877,  Sally 
Hughes  and  had  issue :  John  E.,  Jr.  and  Annie,  who  married 
Charles  Noel.  b.  Mary  Anne,  who  married  James  Jones  and  had 
issue :  John,  married  Mary  Pannil,  and  had  Marion,  Stuart, 
George  W.  and  Mary  Hunter,  c.  Adolphus  Lanier,  killed  in 
1865  in  the  Confederate  army. 

55.  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  married  in  1806  Nancy  Hutchings, 
born  May,  1788,  died  in  Jan.,  1835,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Lucy 
Parke  Hutchings.  After  the  death  of  his  wife  Thomas  Carter 
removed  with  his  children,  except  sons  James  and  Stokely,  to  St. 
Charles,  Missouri,  where  he  died. 

Hutchings  Excursus. 

Moses  Hutchings,  son  of  Christopher  (died  in  1807,  very  old),  and 
Elizabeth  Hutchings,  who  removed  from  Culpeper  to  Pittsylvania  prior  to 
the  Revolution,  was  born  in  1754,  and  died  in  1836.  The  pension  declara- 
tion cf  Moses  Hutchings  filed  in  Pittsylvania,  Aug.  22,  1832,  states  that  he 
enlisted  as  an  Ensign  under  Capt.  John  Donaldson,  Mar.  11,  1777,  in  the 
campaign  against  the  Creek  Indians;  in  Dec,  1777,  was  appointed  Indian 
Spy  under  Capt.  Dillard,  and  in  1778  marched  to  Boonesboro,  Ky.  In  1779 
he  enlisted  as  lieutenant  under  Capt.  Armistead,  and  was  in  the  North 
Carolina  campaign  of  i78i-'82,  in  battle  of  Guilford  C.  H.,  etc 

Dec  13,  1780,  Moses  Hutchings  married,  in  Pittsylvania,  Lucy,  daughter 
of  John  Parke,  a  vestryman,  justice,  etc.,  of  Pittsylvania  in  i77<j-'8o.  They 
had  issue:  William,  married  Judith  Johns,  and  had  a  daughter,  Mary  E., 
who  married  Edward  Carter,  son  of  Raleigh  of  Pittsylvania;  John  married 
Anne  B.  Williams,  and  had  a  son  Dr.  John,  who  married  Celeste  Carter, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Carter  of  "Oakland ;"  Nancy  married  Thomas  Carter, 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  139 

Jr.,  Polly  married  Jesse  Walton ;  Samuel ;  Peggy  married  Samuel  Thomp- 
son, grandson  of  Jesse  Carter  of  "Oakland;"  Robert  married  Mary  Carter, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Carter;  and  Stokeley. 

Moses  Hutchings  was  a  justice  of  Pittsylvania  in  1814,  and  sheriff  in 
1817. 

Thomas  and  Nancy  Hutchings  Carter  had  issue: 

62.  James  Carter,  born  Feb.  18,  1807,  died  April  27,  1884. 

63.  Lucy  Carter,  born  about   1809,  married  a  Mr.  Hubbard. 

64.  Samuel  Carter,  born  about  181 1. 

65.  Winifred  Carter,  born  about  1813,  married  a  Mr.  Hubbard. 

66.  Stokeley  Carter,  born  April  23,  181 5. 

67.  William  Carter,  born  Feb.  9,  1817,  died  in  1900. 

68.  Patsy  Carter,  born  about  1819. 

69.  Margaret  Carter,  born  about  1821,  married,  (1),  a  Mr. 
McGregor;    (2),  Judge  Milton  Lovell,  of  Missouri. 

62.  James  Carter,  a  Pittsylvania  farmer,  married  July  21,  1834, 
Lucy  Washington  Lanier,  daughter  of  Capt.  James  Monroe 
Lanier  and  his  wife,  Mary  Merriman  Johns. 

Lanier  Excursus. 

James  M.  Lanier  was  a  planter  of  great  wealth  and  entertained  in  a 
lavish  manner  at  his  fine  old  brick  mansion  in  Pittsylvania  County.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1817,  was  a  captain  in  the  War  1812,  and  died 
suddenly  in  1820.  He  was  the  third  son  of  Capt.  David  Lanier  and  his 
wife,  a  Miss  Hicks,  who*  purchased  a  plantation  in  western  Pittsylvania, 
May  28,  1772,  to  which  he  removed  from  Brunswick  County.  In  1776  this 
was  included  in  the  hew  county  of  Henry,  whose  records  show  that  David 
Lanier  was  a  captain  of  Henry  County  militia  in  the  Revolution,  which 
saw  service  under  General  Green.  In  early  days  the  Brunswick  Laniers 
intermarried  with  the  Surry  County  Washington  family,  over  which  a 
heated  genealogical  controversy  raged  for  a  long  time,  until  settled  by  a 
search  of  the  county  records  a  few  years  ago.  Sidney  Lanier,  the  poet,  was 
of  this  family. 

Lucy  Washington  Lanier  Carter,  born  Sept.  18,  1817,  died 
July  29,  1891,  was  "a  woman  of  strong  personality,  possessing 
great  intelligence  and  business  acumen."  James  and  Lucy  Carter 
had  issue : 


140 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


70.  Mary  Thomas  Carter,  born  May  26,  1836,  died  in  Nov. 
1909. 

71.  Hutchings  Lanier  Carter,  born  May  2,  1838,  died  in  Nov. 
1892. 

y2.  Ross  Carter,  born  March  8,  1840,  died  in  1903. 

73.  James  Carter,  Jr.,  born  April  3,   1842.     Living. 

74.  Scott  and  Taylor  Carter  (itwins),  born  Nov.  5,  1847. 
Taylor  died  infant. 

75.  John  Dale  Carter,  born  May  2,  1849.     Living. 

76.  Ellen  Hicks  Carter,  born  June  7,  185 1.     Living. 

yy.  Ada  B.  Carter,  born  July  20,  1853,  died  June  2,  1872. 

78.  Hugh  Carter,  born  June  15,   1856. 

79.  William  Carter,  born  Jan.  9,  1863. 

70.  Mary  T.  Carter,  married  James  P.  Johnson,  a  Chatham, 
Va.,  merchant,  and  has  issue :  Neale,  Lyle,  Lucy,  married  Henry 
Bolanz,  a  Chatham  merchant ;  Foote,  Mamie,  married  Horace 
Partridge,  an  attorney,  Washington,  D.  C. 

71.  Hutchings  Lanier  Carter,  was  1st  lieutenant,  Company 
I,  53rd  Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A.,  the  only  company  that 
crossed  the  stone  wall  at  Gettysburg  on  July  3,  1863.  An  ac- 
count of  this  by  the  color  corporal  in  The  Times-Dispatch, 
says :  "When  the  brigade  reached  the  wall  there  was  few  men 
left  and  General  Armistead,  turning  to  Colonel  R.  W.  Martin, 
said,  'Colonel,  we  can't  stay  here,'  and  Colonel  Martin  replied, 
'Then  we'll  go  forward' ;  and  over  the  wall  the  few  remaining 
went,  but  there  were  only  seven  or  eight  men  left — General  Ar- 
mistead, Colonel  Martin,  Lieutenant  Hutchings  L.  Carter, 
Thomas  Treadway,  James  C.  Coleman  and  some  others.  When 
Color  Sergeant  Jones  fell  from  the  wall,  Lieutenant  H.  L.  Carter 
seized  the  colors  and  ran  forward  among  the  artillery,  which 
the  enemy  had  abandoned.  But  reinforcements  coming  up  they 
returned  and  retook  the  guns,  there  being  no  one  left  to  hold 
them,  and  opened  fire  again  on  our  lines.  General  Armistead 
was  killed  while  trying  to  turn  a  gun  on  the  enemy;  Colonel 
Martin  was  wounded,  his  leg  being  shattered  by  a  ball,  and  his 
friend,  Thomas  Treadway,  who  ran  to  his  assistance,  was  shot 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  141 

and  fell  dead  across  his  body.  The  others  fell  also,  and  Lieutenant 
Carter  finding-  himself  alone  in  the  enemy's  line  surrendered  and 
was  sent  a  prisoner  to  the  rear,  leaving  the  flag  among  the  guns. 
He  had  seventeen  bullet  holes  in  his  clothes  and  yet  was  without 
a  wound.  Thus  he  carried  the  flag  of  the  53rd  Virginia  to  the 
farthest  point  in  the  enemy's  lines  that  day.  Of  its  ten  guards 
eight  were  killed  outright,  and  Jones  and  myself  were  severely 
wounded." 

Lieutenant  Hutchings  L.  Carter  married  Eliza  Poindexter  and 
had  issue :  a.  James  S.,  a  lumber  merchant  of  Lynchburg,  who 
married  Kate  Prescott  of  N.  C,  and  has  issue  Prescott  and  Sallie ; 
b.  Edgar,  for  a  number  of  year  a  banker  in  Cuba,  died  unmar- 
ried March  11,  1909,  at  Thomasville,  Ga.  Buried  at  Chatham, 
Va. ;  c.  Nellie ;  d.  Dr.  Henry  Carter,  McKenna,  Dinwiddie  county, 
Virginia. 

72.  Samuel  Ross  Carter,  captain  of  Company  G,  53rd  Vir- 
ginia Infantry,  C.  S.  A.,  married  Sally  Lucke  and  had  issue : 
a.  Shields,  married  Louise  Rice  of  New  York  and  had  Rosewell 
York  and  Elaine ;  b.  Williams ;  c.  Ada,  married  Chas.  Stultz ; 
d.  Florence;  e.  Percy  H.,  a  chemist,  living  in  Georgia. 

73.  James  Carter,  corporal  Company  I,  53rd  Virginia  In- 
fantry, C.  S.  A.,  is  the  present  postmaster  at  Chatham,  Va.  He 
married,  Feb.  19,  1874,  Bettie  Pigg.  Issue:  a.  Rutledge  P., 
merchant  in  Danville ;  b.  Lanier,  physician  at  Chatham,  married 
Mabel  Moon  and  has  James  and  Virginia ;  c.  Martha  Maud,  mar- 
ried Nathaniel  Clement,  an  attorney  at  Chatham,  and  has  issue, 
Elizabeth  Lanier,  Rutledge  Carter  and  Henry  Turner;  d.  James 
Shirley. 

Rutledge,  Ward,  Chiles  Excursus. 

Bettie  Pigg  Carter,  was  the  daughter  of  Hezekiah  Ford  Pigg  and 
Martha  Ward  Rutledge.  Martha  Ward  Rutledge  was  the  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  Biddle  Rutledge  of  Maryland,  and  his  wife,  Lucinda  Ward.  He  was 
the  son  of  Joshua  Rutledge  of  "My  Lady's  Manor,"  Maryland,  and  his 
wife  Augustine  Biddle  of  Delaware.  Joshua  Rutledge  served  in  the  Revo- 
lution as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  Maryland  Regiment,  Continental  Line, 
and  was  an  original  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 


I42  GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Lucinda  Ward,  born  October  28,  1804,  married  Dr.  John  Rutledge  on 
October  14,  1823,  in  the  ball  room  of  "The  Mansion,"  the  old  Ward  home 
in  Campbell  County,  Va.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Ward,  born 
April  2,  1751,  the  youngest  child  of  Maj.  John  Ward  of  "The  Mansion"  by 
his  first  wife,  Anne  Chiles,  daughter  of  Coll  Henry  Chiles,  whose  will  was 
probated  in  Amelia  County,  March  20,  1746.  "Major  John  Ward  built  his 
home,  'The  Mansion,'  about  1751.  It  is  standing  to-day,  a  quaintly  beau- 
tiful home  on  the  cliff  above  the  Staunton  River  overlooking  the  wide 
plains  below.  The  rooms  have  the  corner  fireplaces,  with  tiny  cupboards 
budt  in  the  chimneys  just  above  the  mantles.  It  was  the  first  weather- 
boarded,  plastered  house  in  that  section  of  the  country,  and  the  friendly 
Indians  and  the  people  for  miles  around  came  to  view  the  magnificence  of 
the  'Mansion.'"  Maj.  Ward  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  a  hundred  and 
five  years,  and  his  will  was  probated  in  Campbell  County,  Nov.  11,  1816. 

Clement  Excursus. 

Maud  Carter,  daughter  of  James  and  Bettie  Pigg  Carter,  married  on 
June  24,  1902,  Nathaniel  Elliott  Clement,  a  lawyer  of  Chatham,  Va.  He 
was  born  Nov.  15,  1872,  and  is  the  son  of  Henry  Clay  and  Harriet  Morri- 
son Clement  of  Pittsylvania  County.  Henry  Cl'ay  Clement  served  in  Flour- 
noy's  Cavalry  in  the  Confederate  Army.  He  is  the  son  of  Dr.  George 
Washington  and  Sarah  Turner  Clement.  Dr.  Clement,  born  in  1785,  was  a 
graduate  of  Jefferson  College,  Philadelphia,  and  was  a  physician  of  promi- 
nence and  wealth  in  Pittsylvania  County,  where  he  died  in  1867.  He  was 
the  son  of  Adam  and  Agnes  Johnson  Clemet.  Adam  Clement  was  a  cap- 
tain of  the  Bedford  County  Militia  in  the  Revolution,  and  his  old  sword  is 
now  owned  by  Mr.  N.  E.  Clement,  his  great-grandson.  In  1786  he  was 
one  of  the  original  trustees  of  the  city  of  Lynchburg;  died  in  1813,  and 
was  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Susannah  Hill  Clement,  pioneer  settlers  in 
this  section  of  the  State.  As  early  as  1738,  Benjamin  Clement  was  buying 
and  selling  lands  in  Amelia  County;  in  1752,  before  Pittsylvania  was  cut 
off  from  Halifax,  he  was  a  justice  of  the  Halifax  court,  and  in  1756  was 
commissioned  captain  of  Rangers  in  that  county.  He  was  a  son  of  Wil- 
liam Clement,  who  was  sheriff  in  1755,  and  died  in  1760.  Benjamin 
Clement  built  his  home  on  a  beautiful  knoll  overlooking  the  valley  of  the 
Staunton ;  it  is  a  quaint  old  house  with  corner  fireplaces  and  other  old- 
time  features,  and  is  still  owned  by  the  family.  Benjamin  Clement  died 
in  1786. 

74.  Scott  Carter,  is  the  proprietor  of  the  leading  hotel  in 
Chatham,  Va.  He  is  the  owner  of  the  handsome  old  liquor 
cases  of  his  great  grandfather,  Thomas  Carter  of  "Greenrock." 


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GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  143 

These  cases  may  be  much  older  than  it  is  supposed,  as  the 
inventories  of  the  estates  of  the  father  and  grandfather  of 
Thomas  of  "Greenrock"  both  mention  liquor  cases. 

Scott  Carter  married  Belle  Ragsdale  and  had  issue:  Mary, 
died  in  young  girlhood ;  Argyle,  died  infant,  and  Scott,  Jr., 
a  young  business  man  in  Baltimore. 

75.  Johx  Dale  Carter,  is  a  farmer  in  Missouri,  where  he 
married  a  Airs.  East  and  had  one  son.  Ernest. 

76.  Ellex  Hicks  Carter,  married  Wm.  B.  Hurt,  a  merchant 
at  Chatham,  Ya.,  and  has  issue :  Walker,  a  bookkeeper  at  Cov- 
ington, Ya. ;  Henry  Hicks,  a  chemist,  married  Emily  Adair,  of 
Richmond,  and  has  sons,  William  and  Henry ;  Lucy,  married 
Dr.  Chesley  Martin,  and  has  Xellie  and  Chesley,  Jr. ;  Xannie, 
married  Chester  Hancock,  an  Albemarle  farmer,  and  has  sons, 
Henry,  Chester  and  Philip ;  Stanhope ;  Jane,  married  Logan 
Coleman,  a  wealthy  Pittsylvania  farmer,  and  has  sons,  Henry 
and  William ;  John,  married  Maria  Mitchell,  and  has  a  daughter, 
Lucy,  and  Philip  Hurt. 

78.  Hugh  Lawson  Carter,  is  a  farmer  in  Texas.  Xo  other 
data. 

79.  William  J.  Carter,  is  a  wholesale  merchant  in  Baltimore. 
He  married  Carrie  Dufur,  and  has  issue :  Bessie,  Lucy  and 
George. 

66.  Stokeley  Carter,  born  in  1815,  lived  at  "Stoney  Mills," 
Pittsylvania  county.  He  was  married  prior  to  1836  to  Frances 
Keen,  and  had  issue :  Xannie,  married  a  Mr.  Blair ;  Thomas, 
of  Danville,  married  Xannie  Smith,  and  had  Williard,  Charles 
and  Bessie ;  James ;  Rufus,  and  Elisha,  married  a  Miss  Smith, 
and  had  a  daughter  Frances. 

67.  William  Carter,  born  in  1817,  married  Olive  Agnes 
Ferney,  born  May  24,  1817.  died  in  1852,  and  had  issue:  James, 
born  in  1840;  Thomas  M.,  born  in  1842;  Martha,  born  in  1843, 
married    Charles    Carnes    Allen,    of    Missouri,    and    had    issue: 


l44       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Olive,  William,  Joseph,  Charles,  Lucy,  Lucas  P.,  Martha,  James 
and  Ernest  Clement ;  Lucas  Hutchings  born  in  1845 !  Oliver 
Parker  in  1847;  Lucy  Margaret,  in  1849;  Sarah,  in  1851,  and 
William  Joseph,   in   1852. 

56.  Jeduthan  Carter,  born  March  22,  1779,  had  among  other 
children  a  son,  Jeduthan,  Jr.  (authority  of  the  venerable  Mrs. 
Arabella  Carter  Womack).  Jeduthan  Carter,  Jr.,  born  in  1821, 
was  captain  of  Company  F,  38th  Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A. 
He  married  Anne  Hubbard  (died  June  8,  1874),  and  among 
other  children  had  a  son,  John  W.  Carter,  born  March  25,  1851, 
who  in  1885  organized  the  first  wholesale  grocery  firm  in  Dan- 
ville, Va.,  under  the  name  of  John  W.  Carter  &  Co.  December 
3,  1879,  ne  was  married  to  Margaret  A.,  daughter  of  Frank  and 
Anne  E.  Watson  Redd,  of  Prince  Edward  county.  They  have 
sons,  Warner  P.  Carter ;  J.  Eppes  Carter,  and  John  W.  Carter,  Jr. 

Being  unable  to  obtain  from  the  family  any  answer  to  my 
letters  of  inquiry,  I  have  had  to  rely  upon  others  for  such 
data  as  is  given  of  this  branch  of  the  Carter  family. 

58.  Christopher  Lawson  Carter,  born  at  "Greenrock," 
Pittsylvania  county,  Va.,  Feb.  7,  1784,  died  in  Lincoln  county, 
Missouri,  Oct.  7,  i860.  January  2,  1809,  ne  was  married  in 
Pittsylvania  to  Mary,  daughter  of  James  and  Frances  Rogers 
Sawyers.  She  was  born  Sept.  27,  1791,  and  died  on  the  old 
Carter  place  in  Lincoln  county,  Dec.  2,  1876.  The  descendants 
of  Christopher  L.  Carter  have  from  him  the  statement  that  his 
father,  Thomas  Carter,  of  "Greenrock,?  Pittsylvania,  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and  they  think  that  he  was  the  Thomas 
Carter  who  enlisted  March  10,  1777,  for  three  years  as  a  private 
in  Captain  John  Dandridge's  comapny,  1st  Artillery  Regiment, 
Continental  Line,  under  Colonel  Charles  Harrison,  and  was  as- 
signed to  service  in  the  State  of  Virginia. 

They  also  have  the  tradition  that  Christopher  Lawson  Carter 
and  two  of  his  brothers  saw  service  in  the  War  of  1812.  I 
find  from  the  Muster  Rolls  of  the  War  of  1812,  published  in 
1852,  that  Captain  Edward  Carter's  troop  of  cavalry  was  at- 
tached to  a  regiment  of  United   States  Cavalry  under  Colonel 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  145 

P.  Holcombe  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  from  the  3rd 
to  the  12th  of  Sept.,  1814,  and  included  the  following  Carters : 
Captain  Edward  Carter,  Sergeant  Rawley  W.  Carter,  Sergeant 
Christopher  L.  Carter  and  private  Jesse  Carter.  They  were 
probably  all  four  the  sons  of  Thomas  Carter  of  "Greenrock" — two 
undoubtedly  were. 

Christopher  L.  and  Mary  Sawyers  Carter  had  issue  eleven 
children : 

80.  Frances  Carter,  married  Barton  Hubbard,  and  has  de- 
scendants in  Missouri. 

81.  Pleasants   Carter,  died  young. 

82.  Rebecca  Carter,  married  Pines  Shelton,  and  has  descend- 
ants in  Missouri. 

83.  James  Sawyers  Carter,  born  in  1814,  married  Mary  J. 
Duncan,  and  had  one  son,  Christopher  W.  Carter,  who  saw  service 
in  the  Confederate  army.  He  married  Nannie  Ross  Dyer  and 
moved  to  Texas  in  1874.  They  had  four  children,  Martha  Pleas- 
ants, married  a  Mr.  McLeod ;  Emner  L. ;  Henry  L.,  and  Errol. 
All  live  at  Seymour,  Texas. 

84.  Jane  Carter,  married  James  Shelton,  and  had  several  sons 
in  the  Confederate  army.  She  has  descendants  living  near  Waco, 
Texas. 

85.  Christopher  Lawson  Carter,  Jr.,  born  Nov.  4,  1818,  was 
but  twelve  years  old  when  his  father  removed  to  Missouri.  In 
1848  he  went  to  the  gold  fields  of  California,  returning  to  Mis- 
souri in  the  fall  of  1850  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  In 
1854  he  removed  his  family  to  Waco,  Texas,  and  a  year  later 
to  Palo  Pinto  county,  Texas,  where  he  lived  until  his  death  in 
July,  1888.  During  the  war  he  was  in  the  service  of  the  State 
of  Texas,  but  always  on  the  frontier  against  the  Indians.  He 
was  a  large  cattleman,  and  with  Simpson,  Slaughter  and  others 
formed  the  Texas  Cattle  Raisers'  Association,  which  has  become 
the  most  complete  association  of  its  kind  in  the  country.  He 
was  married  in  Lincoln  county,  Mo.,  on  July  7,  1842,  to  Anne 
Smith  Ross,  born  Oct.  18,  1825,  in  Lincoln  county,  died  at  the 
Carter  homestead  in  Palo  Pinto  county,  Texas,  Nov.  17,  1895. 
They  had  issue  eleven  children : 


146       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

a.  Ross  Carter,  born  May  7,  1843,  died  Sept.  23,  1846. 

b.  Pleasant  Carter,  born  Nov.   n,  1845,  died  Sept.   13,  1846. 

c.  Shapley  Prince  Carter,  born  Aug.  2,  1847,  died  of  wounds 
received  in  battle  with  Comanche  Indians,  May   18,  1869. 

d.  Ella  Carter,  born  Oct.  19,   1851,  died  May  3,  1861. 

e.  Lawrence  Sulivan  Carter,  born  Nov.  4,  1853,  was  educated 
at  Washington  &  Lee  University,  Virginia.  He  is  farmer  and 
stockman  at  Canyon  City,  Texas.  In  1878  he  was  married  to 
Louise  M.  Dillalunty,  and  has  four  children,  L.  S.,  Jr.,  Eliza- 
beth, Lewis  Randolph  and  Helen. 

f.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  Dec.  14,  1855,  died  Feb.   16,  1861. 

g.  Peter  Ross  Carter,  born  Dec.  10,  i860,  died  May  11,  1861. 
h.  Christopher   L.    Carter,   Jr.,    born   March   25,    1863,    lives 

in  Hardamon  County,  Texas.  He  married,  (1),  Lucy  Clarke, 
and  had   issue:     Lottie  and   Isaac   Lawson;    (2) 

i.  Mary  A.  Carter,  born  March  4,  1864,  married  Aug.  25, 
1887,  Isham  R.  Darnell  and  lives  at  Benkelman,  Nebraska.  They 
have  issue,  Mary  A.,  died  in  infancy;  Katharine  C,  Shapley 
Boyle  and  Ruth  Elizabeth  Darnell. 

j.  Thomas  Miller  Carter,  born  Jan.  22,  1867,  married  in  1897 
Ola  Kuykendall  and  has  one  daughter,  Nannie  Carter.  They 
live  on  the  old  Carter  place  in  Palo  Pinto  county. 

k.  Katharine  Ross  Carter,  born  July  26,  1870,  married  Wm. 
M.  McGregor,  of  Wichita  Falls,  Texas,  on  July  25,  1890,  and 
has  issue :  William  Carter  McGregor  and  Lillian  May  Mc- 
Gregor. Mr.  McGregor  has  been  the  cashier  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Wichita  Falls  for  the  past  twenty  years. 

86.  Judith  Carter,  born  in  1820,  married  Washington  Wright, 
and  died  in  19 10,  leaving  descendants  in  Missouri. 

87.  George  Carter,  served  four  years  in  the  Confederate  army. 
He  married  Missouri  Henry  and  had  descendants  in  Missouri 
and  California. 

88.  Mary  Carter,  died  young. 

89.  Colonel  Thomas  Miller  Carter,  born  in  Virginia  just  be- 
fore his  father  removed  to  Missouri  in  1830.  He  served  in  the 
war  with  Mexico,  and  in  1861   raised  a  company  and  entered 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  147 

the  Confederate  army  under  Colonel  F.  M.  Cockrell.  He  was 
wounded  at  Elkhorn,  Vicksburg,  Corinth  and  Franklin.  When 
Colonel  Cockrell  was  promoted  to  a  brigade,  Captain  Carter  com- 
manded the  regiment  until  he  was  wounded  at  Franklin.  He 
married  Alabama  Henry,  sister  of  his  brother  George's  wife, 
and  had  four  children.     Colonel  T.  M.  Carter  died  in  1910. 

a.  Ida  Carter,  married  John  E.  Richards  and  has  several  chil- 
dren.    Lives  near  Troy,  Mo. 

b.  Austin  Carter,  unmarried.     Lives  in  St.  Louis. 

c.  Georgia  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Scholl  and  lives  at  Colorado 
City,  Colo. 

d.  Joseph  Carter,  married  and  lives  in  St.  Louis. 

90.  Raleigh  Carter,  never  married,  and  died  about  ten  years 
ago  in  the  Confederate  Home  at  Columbia,  Mo. 

The  data  of  this  branch  of  the  family  was  furnished  by  Mr. 
Isham  R.  Darnell,  of  Benkelman,  Nabraska. 

60.  Raleigh  Williamson  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Thomas 
and  Winifred  Hobson  Carter,  of  "Greenrock,"  Pittsylvania,  in- 
herited the  old  home  and  was  a  prosperous  farmer.  In  1809 
he  married  Anne  Robertson,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Mollie 
Thompson  Robertson,  of  Nottoway  county.  Edward  Robert- 
son is  said  to  have  come  to  Virginia  with  General  Lafayette, 
under  whom  he  served  as  a  sergeant  in  the  Yorktown  campaign. 
Another  branch  of  the  family  says  that  Raleigh  W.  Carter's 
wife  was  Anne  Jennings  Robinson,  daughter  of  Christopher  and 
Anne  Thompson  Robinson,  of  Nottoway,  and  that  Anne  Thomp- 
son's mother  was  Anne  Jennings,  daughter  of  a  wealthy  Eng- 
lishman. 

Raleigh  W.  and  Anne  R.  Carter  had  issue : 

91.  Thomas  Robertson  Carter,  born  Jan.  11,  181 1. 

92.  Dale  Miller  Carter,  born  April  1,  1813,  died  Aug.  20,  1839. 

93.  Edward  Robertson  Carter,  born  Oct.  17,  1814,  died  Feb. 
3,  1908. 

94.  Raleigh  Williamson  Carter,  Jr.,  born  Oct.  31,  181 5. 

95.  Arabella  Williamson,  born  May  18,  1818,  living  in  191 1. 

96.  Tarpley  Williamson  Carter,  born  March  22,  1820,  died 
July  23,  1833. 


148  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

97.  Lawson  Hobson  Carter,  born  April  11,  1821,  died  July  6, 
1821. 

98.  Mary  Robertson  Carter,  born  Aug.  7,  1823. 

99.  Lawson  Hobson  Carter  (second  of  name),  born  March 
12,  1825. 

100.  John  Robertson  Carter,  born  Jan.  5,  1827,  died  Feb.  3, 

'833- 

101.  Christopher  Lawson  Carter,  born  July  31,  1830. 

102.  Christopher  John  Tarpley  Carter,  born  Sept.  15,  1832, 
died  in  1852. 

103.  Susan  Anne  Carter,  born   May   17,  1833,  died  in   1868. 

104.  George  Adcock  Carter,  born  May  20,  1834,  died  March 
16,  1892. 

93.  Edward  Robertson  Carter,  married  in  April,  1848,  Eliza- 
beth Hutchings,  and  removed  to  Bastrop  county,  Texas,  in  1850, 
where  he  died  Feb.  3,  1908,  in  his  ninety-fourth  year.  "He  was 
an  exemplary  man  in  every  respect.  'Mark  the  perfect  man, 
and  behold  the  upright,  for  the  end  of  that  man  is  peace.'  " 
Edward  and  Elizabeth  Hutchings  Carter  had  issue :  ( 1 ) .  Mary, 
married  William  Owens,  of  Elgin,  Texas,  and  had  issue: 
a.  Lucy  E.,  married  Dr.  Wood,  and  has  son,  Dale ;  b.  Jane  S., 
married  R.  L.  Carter,  and  has  Mozelle,  William  A.  and  R.  L.,  Jr. ; 
Clyde  Carter  Owens,  married  Lizzie  Wilks,  and  has  issue,  Eliza- 
beth, Mattie  Arabella  and  Nellie.  (2).  Lucy  Carter,  married 
William  H.  Rivers,  of  Elgin,  Texas,  and  had  issue :  Marvin 
Leon,  Edward  Carter,  Wm.  H.,  Jr.,  W.  C,  Mary  E.,  Roy  Dale, 
Julian  and  Ida  Ruth.  (3).  William  H.  Carter,  married  Belle 
Littleton  and  had  issue:  Edward  Robertson,  Mary  E.,  Lucy 
Lee,  James  Dale  and  D.  B.  Carter. 

95.  Arabella  Williamson  Carter,  named  for  her  grand- 
father Carter's  grandmother,  Arabela  Williamson,  wife  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  of  "Barford,"  Lancaster.  She  is  a 
most  wonderful  old  lady  of  ninety-six  years  with  an  excellent 
memory  and  is  a  bright  and  interesting  conversationalist.  In 
early  life  she  married  Watson  Womack,  of  "Cedar  Hill,"  Pittsyl- 
vania, where  she  still  lives.    They  have  no  surviving  issue. 


Four  Generations  of  Linthicums. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  149 

98.  Mary  Robertson  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Younger,  and 
had  issue:  (1).  Nancy,  married  Chas.  Womack,  and  had  issue: 
William ;  Dr.  Hobson  Womack,  married  Oma  Shields ;  Dr. 
Charles  Womack ;  Kate  Womack,  married  Lawson  Hardin,  and 
had  son,  Lawson;  Mary  Womack;  Stone  Womack;  Dr.  Lawson 
Womack;  Annabell  Womack.  (2).  Lawson.  (3).  Raleigh. 
(4).  Betty  Younger,  married  Duval  Porter,  and  had  daughter, 
Mamie. 

103.  Susan  Anne  Carter,  youngest  daughter  of  Raleigh  Wil- 
liamson Carter,  married  April  7,  1852,  William  Henry  Linthi- 
cum,  died  Sept.  22,  1886),  son  of  John  Terrell  Linthicum  and 
his  wife,  Frances  Glenn  Dabney,  of  Prince  Edward  county.  Mr. 
Linthicum  was  an  architect  of  considerable  ability,  and  fol- 
lowed this  profession  at  Durham,  N.  C,  where  he  was  succeeded 
by  his  son,  Hill  Carter  Linthicum.     They  had  issue : 

(1).  Raleigh  Dabney  Linthicum,  born  in  Feb.,  1853,  died 
Nov.  20,  1910. 

(2).  George  Williamson  Linthicum,  born  in  Jan.,   1856. 

(3).  Arabella  Linthicum,  born  in  1858.     Dead. 

(4).  Hill   Carter   Linthicum,  born   April  8,    i860. 

(5).  Ida  Susan  Linthicum,  born  in  1863.    Dead. 

(6).  Henry  Thomas  Linthicum,  born  in  1864. 

(7).  Edward  Linthicum,  born  in   1867.     Dead. 

(1).  Raleigh  D.  Linthicum,  was  a  contractor  and  builder, 
and  lived  the  last  twenty-four  years  of  his  life  in  Durham,  N.  C, 
where  he  died  in  1910,  leaving  a  wife  and  the  following  chil- 
dren :  Allen  Carter,  Win.  Henry,  Rawleigh  Dabney,  James, 
Alfred,  Edward  Hill,  Chalmers,  Estella,  Susie  and  a  daughter, 
the  wife  of  Mr.  P.  T.  Elliott. 

(4).  Hill  Carter  Linthicum,  one  of  the  most  prominent 
architects  in  the  South,  president  of  the  North  Carolina  Archi- 
tectural Association,  designer  of  many  well  known  buildings  in 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  such  as  the  beautiful  high  school 
buildings  at  Front  Royal,  Va.,  and  Durham,  N.  C. 

A  writer  in  The  Southern  Architect  and  Building  News  says 


I50       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CAR1ER  FAMILY 

of  Mr.  Linthicum :  "With  his  experience  of  over  twenty-five 
years  and  his  continuous  study  of  the  new  ideas  as  they  are 
introduced  makes  him  unquestionably  one  of  the  most  able  men 
in  his  profession  in  the  entire  South,  being  as  he  is  most  pro- 
ficient, not  only  in  architectural  design,  but  structural  engineer- 
ing as   well Outside  of   his   professional  work, 

Mr.  Linthicum  is  well  known  throughout  the  city.  He  is  an 
active  fraternal  man  and  member  of  the  Masons,  Odd  Fellows, 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  other  organizations." 

July  30,  1884,  Mr.  Linthicum  married  at  Stafford,  Ontario, 
Canada,  Elizabeth  Freeborn,  and  has  issue :  Susan  Anne,  born 
Aug.  9,  1885 ;  Henry  Colvin,  an  architect,  located  in  Richmond, 
Va.,  married  Catharine  Otino,  of  Roanoke,  Va.,  and  has  a  son. 
Edward  Dale  Lithicum ;   Leroy   Freeborn,   died  in   infancy. 

The  talent  of  the  family  is  not  confined  to  Mr.  Linthicum,  as 
his  daughter,  Susan  Anne,  besides  graduating  with  honor  from 
lccal  schools  in  North  Carolina,  took  the  honors  over  seven 
hundred  other  girls  at  the  American  Institute  of  Applied  Music, 
New  York  City,  in  June,  1910.  She  has  been  successful  in  the 
concert  field,  and  has  appeared  in  Carnegie  Hall,  New  York 
City,  and  various  places  in  the  South.  Her  voice  has  been  de- 
scribed as  a  "wonderfully  sweet  and  pure  lyric  soprano,  com- 
pletely captivated  her  hearers,  and  their  intense  appreciation 
of  the  varied  and  difficult  classical  selections  rendered,  evoked 
repeated  encores." 

104.  George  Adcock  Carter,  youngest  child  of  Raleigh  W. 
and  Anne  R.  Carter,  was  graduated  in  the  early  fifties  from  the 
University  of  Virginia  with  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  and  from  the 
Medical  College  of  Virginia  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. ;  later  he 
took  a  course  in  special  work  at  the  University  of  New  York.  He 
settled  in  Danville  and  for  forty  years  or  more  was  one  of  the 
foremost  physicians  of  his  section.  He  served  four  years  in 
the  Confederate  army  as  surgeon  of  a  company  raised  at  Chat- 
ham, and  came  out  unhurt  except  for  the  loss  of  his  front  teeth, 
which  were  knocked  out  by  a  stray  bullet.  December  21,  1858, 
he  married  Bettie  Anne  Womack,  and  had  issue :  ( 1 ) .  Kate  W., 
born  Oct.  17,  1859,  married  Jeppy  Stone,  and  had  Betty,  married 


Miss    Susan    Carter   Linthicum, 
Durham,   N.   C 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  151 

Kirkwood  Penard,  of  Lynchburg;  Samuel  and  Mary.  (2). 
George  A.,  Jr.,  born  Feb.  24,  1864.  (3).  Emma  A.,  born  in 
1865,  married  Jan.  17,  1893,  Richard  Coates.  (4).  Raleigh  Wil- 
liamson, born  May  14,  1868,  married  Mary  Coates.  (5).  Samuel 
Stone,  born  Sept.  21,  1869.  (6).  Allen  W.,  born  July  31,  1871. 
(7).  Dr.  Charles  Thomas,  born  July  29,  1875,  lives  in  Dan- 
ville. (8).  Edward  Robertson,' born  July  2,  1877.  (9).  Ste- 
phen D.,  born  Oct.  11,  1878. 


Descendants  of  Joseph  Carter, 
of  Spotsylvania 

Joseph  Carter,  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Arabella  Williamson 
Carter,  born  in  1696-1697,  at  "Barford,"  Lancaster,  died  in 
April,  175 1,  in  Spotsylvania.  He  received  from  his  father  a 
negro  named  Robin  and  a  share  in  the  residuary  estate,  both  real 
and  personal.  He  lived  in  his  native  county  until  1738,  when 
he  removed  to  Spotsylvania,  where  he  had  a  grant  of  215  acres 
of  land,  to  which  he  added  89  acres  in  1739,  one  hundred  acres 
in  1749,  another  hundred  in  1749  and  a  hundred  and  ninety  in 
i75o. 

From  1 724- 1 725  until  1738  Jos.  Carter  was  Tobacco  Inspector 
at  the  port  of  Corotoman ;  and  from  correspondence  relative  to 
the  manner  in  which  he  performed  his  duty,  we  get  the  only 
insight  we  have  of  his  character,  from  which  we  may  draw 
the  conclusion  that  he  was  a  man  who  had  a  strength  of  char- 
acter and  purpose  sufficient  to  do  his  duty  as  he  saw  it,  even 
in  the  face  of  strong  opposition  and  unpopularity. 

From  as  early  as  1619,  Virginia  had  from  time  to  time  passed 
laws  looking  to  the  improvement  in  the  quality  of  tobacco  grown. 
These  provided  for  an  inspection  of  tobacco  shipped  from  every 
port,  and  any  that  failed  to  come  up  to  the  quality  of  the  lowest 
grade  acceptable  to  the  English  merchants,  was  to  be  burned  on 
the  spot.  There  was  always  a  great  deal  of  trouble  to  get  inspectors 
who  would  do  their  duty  in  the  matter  and  not  be  governed  by 
feelings  of  friendship  for  their  neighbors  and  relatives.  When 
one  did  what  he  thought  was  right  there  was  always  a  great 
cry  that  he  was  partial  to  some  and  vented  a  private  spite  toward 
others.  Joseph  Carter  was  accused  of  an  overbearing  temper, 
partiality,  and  injustice  toward  many.  Colonel  Edwin  Conway 
was  the  spokesman  of  this  faction  and  several  of  his  letters 
to  the  Governor  have  been  preserved.  The  trouble  began  about 
1727  and  by  1732  was  widespread,  as  the  greatly  inferior  crops 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  153 

of  those  years  made  it  necessary  for  the  inspectors  to  exercise 
their  authority  more.  Several  letters  of  Colonel  Conway  in 
1732  are  very  bitter,  but  he  does  not  seem  to  have  been  able  to 
persuade  the  Governor  and  Secretary,  John  Carter,  that  Inspector 
Joseph  Carter  had  done  anything  but  his  duty,  as  they  held  him 
in  the  office  until  he  removed  to  Spotsylvania,  and  then  appointed 
Dale  Carter  in  his  stead.  In  one  letter  Colonel  Conway  wrote : 
"Yesterday   I   presum'd  to   write   to  yor   Honr   to   inform  you 

how  the  Secretary  had  baffled  me We  are  willing 

the  Secretary  may  Nominate  whom  he  pleases  to  be  in  Mr. 
Carter's  room.  Enough  are  willing  to  take  the  office,  so  that  his 
Honr  may  have  great  Choice  and  I  hope  we  shall  have  no  Occasion 
to  be  troublesome  anymore."  At  a  later  date  he  writes:  ''Surely 
the  Secretary  may  find  a  friend  in  Lancaster  as  worthy  as  Mr. 
Carter ;  if  not  in  Lancaster,  he  may  in  Virga — we  think  none  will 
do  Less  Justice."  On  the  other  hand  such  men  as  Mr.  Richard 
Lee,  Mr.  Edwards  (the  minister  at  Christ  Church),  and  Mr. 
Philip  Smith,  Jr.,  of  Northumberland,  wrote  the  Governor  and 
Secretary  very  strong  letters  in  favor  of  Joseph  Carter.  Mr. 
Smith  said  of  him  and  the  two  inspectors  associated  with  him : 
"I  consider  them  very  honest  men,  and  as  far  as  I  see  very 
careful  in  their  office  not  to  pass  any  tobacco  but  what  was  good, 
and  in  my  opinion  have  done  equal  justice  to  all." 

In  17 19  Joseph  Carter  married  Catharine  Stevens,  daughter 
of  James  Stevens,  of  King  and  Queen  county,  from  whom  he 
had  a  deed  of  gift  for  a  negro  woman,  "Bet."  Joseph  Carter, 
of  St.  George's  parish,  Spotsylvania,  made  his  will  Feb.  19,  1750, 
probated  May  7,  1751.  Wife  Catharine  to  have  the  home  planta- 
tion of  215  acres  and  two  negroes;  son  Joseph,  the  Wheeler 
land,  a  negro  man,  young  horse  and  a  gun  called  "Mary" ;  son 
John  to  have  the  Matthews  land,  negro  man,  young  horse  and 
a  gun  called  "Ye  Reed" ;  son  George,  the  Brown  land  and  thirty 
acres  adjoining,  a  negro  man,  choice  of  other  three  guns  and 
£3  current  money ;  after  death  of  wife,  son  Robert  to  have 
the  home  place,  choice  of  other  two  guns  and  £30  current 
money ;  a  negro  girl  to  daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth  (wife  of  James 
Davis);  £33  current  money  to   daughter,   Elizabeth;   £30   cur- 


154  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

rent  money  to  daughter,  Catharine.  Sons  to  all  share  alike  in 
his  brandy  still  and  residuary  estate.  Wife,  son,  John,  and 
friend,  Mr.  John  Minor,  to  be  executors.  The  appraisement  of 
the  personal  estate  of  "Mr.  Joseph  Carter"  amounted  to  £404.2.2 
and  besides  a  lot  of  good  household  goods,  included  a  "parcel 
of  books,  a  pair  of  silver  buckles  and  four  silver  spoons."  Catha- 
rine Carter  was  still  living  in  1771,  when  she  made  a  deed  to 
her  son,  John  Carter. 

Joseph  Carter  seems  to  have  inherited  the  family  seal  men- 
tioned in  the  appraisement  of  his  father,  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.'s, 
estate,  as  on  Jan.  2,  1739,  "JosePn  Carter  of  ye  Psh  of  St.  George 
in  the  County  of  Spotsylvania  Planter"  made  a  deed  to  his 
daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth,  and  her  husband,  James  Davis,  for 
two  negroes,  and  sealed  the  deed  with  a  seal  showing  a  crest 
of  the  Bedfordshire  Carters — a  demi  talbot  out  of  a  mural 
crown,  and  below  the  crest  the  initials  "T.  C." 

Joseph  and  Catharine  Carter  had  issue   (Bible  Records)  : 

1.  Thomas  Williamson  Carter,  born  May  8,  1720;  killed  by 
the  accidental  discharge  of  a  gun  Christmas  week,    1738. 

2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  Dec.  2,  1721,  in  King  and  Queen 
county,  married  James  Davis,  of  "Broadfield,"  Spotsylvania. 

3.  Edward  Dale,  born  June  2,  1723,  died  prior  to  1750. 

4.  John,  born  June  8,  1725. 

5.  George,  born  Dec.  18,  1728. 

6.  Elizabeth,  born  Sept.  20,  1731. 

7.  Joseph  and  Catharine,  twins,  born  May  3,  1733. 

8.  Robert,  born  Aug.  12,  1735.  VHaJI" +i>    ftji/cL*  &>  ,V)  £  *  I        ^ 

Davises,  of  "Broadfield,"  Spotsylvania. 

2.  Mary  Elizabeth  Carter,  was  married  at  the  age  of  six- 
teen, on  Christmas  day,  1738,  to  James  Davis,  of  Broadfield, 
Spotsylvania.  He  was  born  Nov.  3,  1719,  and  was  the  second 
son  of  Thomas  Davis  (born  Aug.  8,  1693,  son  of  John  and 
Susannah  Wyatt  (?)  Davis  of  Stafford),  and  his  wife,  Sarah 
Fielding  (born  May  12,  1695,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Hannah 
Fielding,  of  Northumberland). 


James    Davis,    Sr-,  Mrs.   James    Davis, 

(1719-1765).  (1721-1787). 

"Broadficld,"    Spotsylvania    County,    Virginia. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  155 

Fielding  Excursus. 

The  earliest  ancestor  of  the  Fieldings  of  Northumberland,  Va.,  to  whom 
we  can  trace  without  a  break  is  Rev.  Roger  Fielden,  or  Fielding,  an  Epis- 
copal clergyman  at  Horton,  Gloucestershire,  England,  in  the  early  part  of 
the  17th  century.  Though  the  connection  has  not  been  discovered,  it  is 
almost  certain  that  he  was  a  member  of  the  ancient  family  of  Fielding  of 
"Newham  Paddox,"  Warrickshire,  which  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  in 
1622  with  the  title  of  Earls  of  Denbigh.  The  first  Earl  of  Denbigh  had  a 
brother,  Sir  Roger  Fielding,  who  is  the  founder  of  a  distinguished  branch 
of  that  family.  The  sons  and  grandsons  of  Rev.  Roger  used  the  Haps- 
burg  seal  of  the  Fieldings  of  Newham,  and  similar  baptismal  names. 

Original  wills,  deeds,  etc-,  show  that  Ambrose  Fielding,  the  emigrant 
to  Virginia,   had  the  following  brothers  and  sisters : 

Dr.  Robert,  born  in  1620,  died  after  1693  in  Gloucester,  England. 

Richard,  a  merchant  in  Bristol,  died  in  1667. 

Edward,  a  merchant  in  Bristol,  died  in  1693. 

Elizabeth,  married  a  Mr.  Gwin  of  Horton,  Eng.,  living  in  1693. 

Margaret,  married  Walter  Fryer,  and  was  living  in  1693. 

In  1696  certified  copies  of  several  Fielding  wills,  deeds,  etc.,  were  made 
from  the  English  and  Virginia  records  for  one  of  the  Virginia  members 
of  the  family.  These  with  some  original  papers  are  now  owned  by  the 
writer.  They  show  the  relationship  of  the  above-mentioned  brothers  and 
sisters,  but  the  name  of  their  father  comes  from  the  records  of  the  en- 
trance of  Dr.  Robert  Fielding  at  Balliol  College,  Oxford. 

"Robert  Ffeilden.  son  of  Roger,  of  Horton,  Co.  Gloucester,  Sacerd," 
matriculated  at  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  in  March,  i637-'38,  at  the  age  of 
18  years.  May  7,  1641,  he  rec'd  the  degree  of  B.  A.,  and  was  made  a 
fellow  of  the  college  in  1646,  but  was  ejected  from  his  fellowship  in  1648 
by  the  Parliamentary  Party  under  Cromwell.  He  returned,  and  on  Dec. 
14,  1653,  reed  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  In  1664  he  was  made 
honorary  fellow  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  at  which  time  his  name 
was  spelled  "Ffeildinge."  Later  practiced  in  the  city  of  Gloucester.  (See 
Foster's  Alumni  Oxoniensis,  and  Munk's  Roll  of  the  Royall  College  of 
Physicians,  London.)  Richard  and  Edward  Fielding  each  left  small  re- 
membrances to  their  brother,  Dr.  Robert  Feilding  of  Gloucester. 

Richard  Feilding,  merchant  and  ship  owner,  of  Bristol,  England,  lived 
for  a  time  in  Virginia,  where  on  Dec.  14,  1662,  he  purchased  from  Capt. 
Peter  Knight,  a  thousand-acre  plantation,  near  the  head  of  Great  Wico- 
comico  River,  Northumberland  County ;  and  the  old  order  books  of  North- 
umberland show  that  in  the  next  four  years  he  recorded  deeds  for  several 
other  tracts  of  land,  but  as  the  deed  books  were  burned,  the  size  of  these 
can  not  be  learned.    His  will,  prob.  April  18,  1667  (see  Virginia  Historical 


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Magazine  for  abstract),  gave  small  legacies  to  sisters  and  brother  Robert, 
his  plantation  in  Virginia,  with  all  stock,  servants,  household  goods,  etc., 
thereon,  to  brother  Ambrose,  and  the  rest  of  his  property  in  England  and 
elsewhere,  ship  Phoenix,  etc.,  to  brother  Edward  of  Bristol. 

"Edward  Ffeilding,  Esqre,  one  of  the  Alderman  of  the  city  of  Bristol," 
made  his  will  Feb.  9,  1690,  prob.  March  2,  1693  (see  Virginia  Historical 
Magazine  for  abstract).  He  was  the  wealthiest  of  the  brothers,  and  be- 
queathed a  large  estate,  consisting  of  lands  in  Lacock  parish,  Wiltshire, 
Eniterne  and  Landegge  parishes,  Monmouthshire,  houses  and  stores  in 
Bristol,  ship  Phoenix,  plantation  and  servants  in  Virginia,  a  large  lot  of 
goods  in  his  shops,  some  five  thousand  pounds  in  cash,  a  great  deal  of 
silver  plate,  Jewells,  etc.  The  bulk  of  the  estate  was  entailed  upon  his  son 
William  and  his  heirs ;  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Fielding,  receiving  houses  and 
land  in  Wiltshire  and  Bristol,  besides  a  great  deal  of  personal  property; 
and  his  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Susanna,  Martha,  and  Anne  from 
eight  hundred  to  a  thousand  pounds  each,  sterling.  Elizabeth,  the  eldest 
daughter,  receiving  also,  an  estate  in  Monmouthshire  known  as  "Cardit 
Hall."  He  also  gave  from  three  to  forty  pounds  each  to  his  sisters, 
brothers-in-law,  brother  "Robert  Ffeilding,  Doctor  in  Physic"  at  Glou- 
cester, a  servant,  and  to  the  poor  of  the  parishes  of  St.  Peter's  in  Bristol, 
and  of  Horton  in  Gloucestershire.  And  to  "My  nephew  Edw.  Ffeilding, 
son  of  my  late  brother,  Mr.  Ambrose  Ffeilding.  Dec'd  500  acres  to  be  laid 
out  of  my  lands  and  plantation  at  Wiccocomico,  in  the  Co.  of  North- 
umberland in  the  Country  of  Virginia  beyond  the  Seas."  This  plantation 
had  about  twenty-five  hundred  acres,  seventeen  hundred  of  which  he  had 
by  a  deed  for  from  his  nephew,  Richard  Feilding,  son  of  Ambrose,  on 
Sept.  1,  1686.  After  laying  out  the  five  hundred  acres  for  Edward 
Feilding  of  Virginia,  the  remainder  of  this  plantation  was  sold  by  Edward 
Eeilding's  executors  in  1696  to  "King"  Robert  Carter  of  Lancaster,  to- 
gether with  all  stock,  servants  and  household  goods  thereon.  These  may 
have  included  silver  plate,  as  Mr.  Wm.  A.  Eliason,  a  descendant  of  "King 
Carter,"  living  at  Statesville,  N.  C-,  owns  a  piece  of  very  ancient  plate, 
which  bears  a  lion  rampant  instead  of  the  regular  Carter  crest.  This  is 
the  device  on  the  arms  of  the  Feildings  of  Northumberland.  William 
Feilding,  only  son  of  Edward  of  Bristol,  matriculated  at  Magdalen  College, 
Oxford,  March  2,  i687-'88,  at  the  age  of  17. 

The  Virginia  Fieldings 

Ambrose  Feilding,  the  other  brother,  was  the  ancestor  of  the  family 

of  interest  here.     To  the  original  thousand  acres  he  added  400  more  in 

the  years  1668,  '70  and  '71,  and  named  the  place  "Wicocomico  Hall,"  as 

shown  by  the  inventory  of  his  personal  estate  in  1675.     Here  was  a  brick 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  157 

house  containing  the  following  rooms :  "Ye  hall  parlour,"  "Ye  parlour 
Chamber,"  "Ye  Chamber  over  ye  hall  parlour,"  "Ye  Chamber  over  ye 
parlour  chamber,"  "Ye  Greate  Roome,"  (a  sort  of  dining  room),  "Ye  Oute 
Kitchen  and  Servts.  Roome." 

A  few  years  ago,  Mr.  Eppa  Fielding,  of  Harrison,  Ark.,  visited  North- 
umberland County,  and  by  tracing  the  title  down,  and  other  means,  he 
located  the  old  Fielding  place,  on  which  is  yet  standing  an  old  brick  house 
of  five  or  six  rooms..  Its  walls  are  unusually  thick,  and  show  the  remains 
of  loopholes  for  defending  it  against  attacks  of  the  Indians.  An  old  man 
living  there  told  Mr.  Fielding  that  when  he  was  a  boy  there  had  been  a 
brick  wall  surrounding  the  yard,  which  also  had  loop  holes  in  it. 

Ambrose  Fielding  was  a  justice  of  the  Northumberland  County  Court 
from  June  3,  1669,  to  Feb.  4,  1675.  His  will,  probated  Nov.  17,  1675,  gave 
his  wife  Anne  a  mourning  ring,  and  all  the  rest  of  the  estate  to  his  chil- 
dren, Richard,  Edward,  and  Anne.  The  inventory  of  the  personal  estate 
amounted  to  i279.09.06;  Tho.  Hobson,  Wm.  Presley,  Tho.  Brereton,  and 
Peter  Knight,  appraisers.  It  included  among  other  things,  six  negro  ser- 
vants, and  five  white  servants ;  nineteen  silver  spoons,  a  "silver  tankered 
wth  ye  Ffeilding  Armes  on  it,"  a  smaller  one  "markt  A.  F-,"  a  dram  cup, 
a  Sack  cup,  a  tumbler  "markt  wth :  ye  armes,"  a  bowl,  and  a  salt  dish,  all 
of  silver.  A  watch  &  seal,  a  pair  of  buckles,  2  pairs  of  buttons,  and  a 
"Tobaky  box"  of  silver,  a  plain  ring,  a  "sealed"  ring  and  two  mourning 
\ings,  all  of  gold.  A  "pcell  of  old  small  bookes,"  a  "pcell  of  old  large 
bookes,"  a  large  Bible,  a  pair  of  silver  candlesticks,  four  family  pictures 
and  five  other  pictures.  In  the  way  of  furniture  there  was  in  the  parlour, 
an  oval  table,  a  Turkey  work  carpet,  seven  turkey  work  chairs,  three 
Russia  leather  chairs,  a  Dutch  carved  chair,  a  silk  chair,  tapestry  couch 
a  "court  cubbard,"  etc.  The  best  bedroom  contained  besides  other  things, 
a  "Great  Bedd  &  Cord  wth :  Curtains  &  Vallaines  lined  wth ;  Silke,  teas- 
ters,  and  a  Damask  &  Silke  Counterpayne,"  a  carved  chest  of  drawers, 
looking  glass,  etc.  In  other  rooms  were  a  number  of  beds,  tables,  chests, 
chairs,  etc. 

The  fragmentary  condition  of  the  early  records  of  Northumberland 
add  to  the  difficulty  of  writing  a  complete  history  of  this  family.  Of  Anne, 
the  daughter  of  Ambrose  Feilding,  I  have  no  data.  Richard,  the  elder 
son,  was  the  manager  of  his  uncle  Edward's  Virginia  property,  and  had 
a  good  deal  of  trouble  with  his  uncle  about  it-  Finally,  in  1686,  he  turned 
over  to  his  uncle  everything  he  had  and  probably  left  Virginia,  as  he 
does  not  appear  again  in  the  records. 

Edward  Feilding,  the  second  son,  was  a  justice  of  Northumberland  in 
March,  1679,  and  Sept.,  1683,  and  doubtless  during  the  interval.  He 
seems  to  have  been  married  twice,  as  in  his  will,  probated  June  16,  1696, 


158       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

he  left  to  "my  now  loving  wife  Hannah  Fielding"  the  use  of  all  his  estate 
until  his  sons  arrived  at  legal  age,  when  his  estate  was  to  be  divided  as 
follows :  Eldest  son,  Edward  ,to  have  the  home  place  and  the  tract  called 
the  "Mill  Necke;"  Son  Richard  to  have  half  of  a  patent  for  850  acres  he 
had  with  Mr.  John  Harris ;  son  Ambrose  the  tract  he  had  from  his  uncle, 
"Mr.  Edward  Fielding  of  Bristol;  infant  daughter  Sarah  to  have  fifty 
pounds  when  she  reached  the  age  of  eighteen ;  daughter  Anne  a  hundred 
pounds  on  the  following  conditions :  "I  have  refused  my  consent  to  the 
present  marriage  of  my  daughter  Ann  to  Mr  Dennis  Connaway  Junr,  and 
if  they  wait  the  four  years  till  she  arrive  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  &  Mr. 
Conaway  is  more  settled,  I  hereby  give  my  consent  &  direct  my  Exrs  to 
pay  to  my  daughter,  Ann  Ffeilding,  £100  Sterl.,  and  if  she  whedle  her 
mother's  consent  before  sd  time  she  shall  have  but  fifty  pounds  from  my 
estate."  The  sons  were  to  maintain  their  sisters  as  became  their  station 
until  they  married,  and  to  put  Sarah  to  school  as  he  had  Ann.  After  they 
came  into  their  land  each  of  them  was  to  pay  their  mother  a  thousand 
pounds  of  tobacco  so  long  as  she  remained  a  widow,  which  was  not  long, 
as  she  married  a  Mr.  Hill,  and  lived  to  an  extreme  old  age — mentioned 
great-granchildren  in  her  will,  probated  in  Nov.,  1740.  The  daughter  Ann 
married  Mr.  Conway,  but  whether  she  waited  the  prescribed  time,  or 
"whedled  her  mother's  consent"  earlier,  is  not  known.  The  infant  daugh- 
ter, Sarah  Fielding,  born  May  12,  1695  (parish  register  and  family  records), 
married  in  1716-17,  Thomas  Davis,  born  Aug.  8,  1693 ;  and  their  second 
son,  James  C.  Davis,  born  Nov.  3,  1719,  was  later  James  Davis  of  "Broad- 
field,"  Spotsylvania.  For  further  account  of  the  descendants  of  Edward 
and  Hannah  Fielding,  other  than  the  Davises,  see  William  and  Mary  Quar- 
terly for  October,  1910. 

James  Davis  owned  a  plantation  of  some  six  hundred  acres 
on  "Plentiful  Run,"  Spotsylvania,  where  in  1740  he  built  a 
brick  house,  a  story  and  a  half  high,  with  dormer  windows,  and 
great  inside  chimneys.  An  old  letter  tells  of  the  burning  of  this 
house  in  October,  1789,  but  a  quaint  faded  pen  and  ink  drawing 
made  in  1788  by  Thomas  Davis  when  he  removed  to  Kentucky 
is  still  preserved.  Among  the  family  traditions  is  one  that  the 
Davis  children  received  the  most  of  their  education  from  a  tutor 
kept  by  a  neighbor — a  Captain  Winslow.  This  seems  to  have 
been  ample  for  those  days,  especially  for  a  family  of  moderate 
means,  as  Thomas,  the  youngest  son  of  James  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth Carter  Davis,  after  his  removal  to  Kentucky  in  1787- 1788 
advertised  for  a  school  in  the  old  Kentucky  Gazette  of  May  31, 


v. 


Sarah    Fielding,  born    May    12,    1695. 
Daughter   of   Edward   and    Hannah    Fielding. 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  159 

1788,  stating  that  he  was  qualified  to  teach  "Reading,  writing, 
and  Arithmetic  in  its  various  branches,  bookkeeping,  surveying, 
and  Navigation,  geography  or  the  use  of  the  globes,  etc."  The 
Woodford  county,  Ky.,  records  show  that  he  made  a  great  many 
land  surveys  in  that  county.  The  old  records  show  that  the 
colonial  Virginians  endeavored  to  maintain  their  families  in  the 
best  possible  position,  as  regarded  their  social  connections,  edu- 
cation, etc.,  some  even  going  beyond  their  means  to  do  this, 
as  for  example,  the  case  cited  in  the  extract  from  a  letter  written 
in  Jul)',  1772,  by  Wm.  Wiat,  a  Fredericksburg  merchant,  to  his 
brother,  Francis  Wiat,  Liverpool,  England :  "The  Virginians 
have  no  idea  of  bringing  up  their  children.  If  a  person  has  two 
or  three  negroes  and  a  few  acres  of  land,  let  him  have  what 
quantity  of  children  he  may,  they  must  all  be  brought  up  gen- 
teely  to  preserve  the  dignity  of  the  family,  although  he  spends 
twice  his  annual  income.  Such  has  been  the  method  all  our 
relatives  have  taken,  and  when  the  principal  prop  was  sunk,  the 
greater  part  of  them  were  reduced  to  poverty  and  obliged  to 
be  a  burden  on  the  rest  of  his  friends." 

Another  tradition  is  that,  several  years  before  his  death,  James 
Davis,  while  riding  through  the  forest  in  a  storm  was  struck 
on  the  head  by  a  limb  blown  from  a  tree,  knocked  from  his 
horse  and  dragged  for  some  distance.  When  found  he  was  un- 
conscious and  paralyzed,  but  later  recovered  partial  use  of  his 
legs  and  arms — he  evidently  suffered  from  a  fractured  skull  and 
a  clot  of  blood  on  some  part  of  the  brain. 

His  will,  dated  Feb.  16,  1765,  probated  Oct.  1,  1765,  left  to 
his  wife  a  hundred  and  thirty  acres  of  the  home  place,  all  fur- 
nishings, stock,  etc.  (she  had  three  negroes  of  her  own,  not 
mentioned  in  this  will)  ;  son  James  200  acres  and  the  home  place 
after  the  death  of  his  mother ;  son  John  forty  shillings,  as  he  had 
already  been  given  his  share  (a  hundred  acres  of  land  and  a 
negro)  ;  son  Benjamin  the  rest  of  his  land;  daughter  Elizabeth 
a  bed  and  furniture  and  a  cow  and  calf;  the  rest  of  his  personal 
property  and  five  negroes,  amounting  to  £203,  to  be  shared  equal- 
ly by  his  four  younger  children,  when  they  came  of  age — Mary, 
William,  Charles  and  Thomas. 


160  GENEALOGY  VF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Mrs.  James  Davis,  mentioned  in  a  deed  in  1770  by  her  son, 
John  Davis,  of  Mecklenburg,  and  in  a  list  of  Spotsylvania  slave 
owners  (had  three  servants),  died  in  the  five  years  prior  to 
1792 — letter  of  her  daughter  Polly. 

Her  son,  Thomas  Davis,  of  Woodford  county,  Ky.,  when  ap- 
plying for  a  pension  for  his  services  in  the  Revolutionary  War, 
tore  the  birth  records  from  his  Bible  and  filed  them  with  his 
application  in  the  pension  records  at  Washington.  They  give  birth 
records  of  the  following  children  of  James  and  Mary  E.  Carter 
Davis,  of  "Broadfield" : 

9.  John  Fielding  Davis,  born  Jan.  1,  1740,  removed  to  Meck- 
lenburg in  1766. 

10.  James  C.  (Carter  ?)  Davis,  born  March  5,  1741,  died  in 
1792  in  Spotsylvania. 

11.  Benjamin,  born  Jan.  10,  1743,  died  in  1791,  in  Spotsyl- 
vania. 

12.  Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  22,   1745.     No  other  data. 

13.  Snead,  born  May  16,  1748,  died  in  infancy. 

14.  William  Dale,  born  Aug.  28,   1750. 

15.  Mary,  born  May  24,  1753.    Was  unmarried  in  1792. 

16.  Felix,  born  April  27,  1755,  died  in  infancy. 

17.  Charles,  born  Oct.  22,  1758,  living  in  Spotsylvania  in  1794. 

18.  Thomas  W.  (said  to  have  been  Wyat  by  some,  and  Wil- 
liamson by  others,  but  no  record  to  prove  either),  born  Nov.  30, 
1760,  died  Nov.  8,  1839,  in  Woodford  county,  Ky. 

See  portraits  of  James  and  Mary  Carter  reproduced  herewith. 

9.  John  Fielding  Davis,  born  in  Spotsylvania  in  1740,  died 
after  1782,  in  Mecklenburg  county,  Va.  March  15,  1766,  John 
Davis  and  wife,  Martha,  of  St.  George's  parish,  Spotsylvania, 
deeded  a  hundred  acres  of  land  previously  deeded  to  him  by  his 
father,  James  Davis.  Doubtless  this  was  the  time  of  their 
removal  to  Mecklenburg  county.  October  17,  1770,  John  Davis 
and  his  wife,  Martha,  of  Mecklenburg  county,  made  a  deed  to 
his  brothers,  James  and  Benjamin  Davis,  of  Spotsylvania,  for  his 
share,  by  reversion,  in  four  hundred  acres  of  land  on  "  Plentiful 
Run,  Spotsylvania  County,  where  of  their  father  James  Davis 
dec'd  died  seized  &  possessed  of,"  which  share  was  expectant  in 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  161 

the  death  of  their  mother,  Mary  Davis,  who  held  a  life  estate 
therein.  The  census  of  1782  shows  that  John  Davis,  of  Meck- 
lenburg, was  the  head  of  a  family  of  seven  white  souls  and 
twenty-three  servants.  The  county  records  fail  to  show  his  will 
or  settlement  of  estate,  but  the  will  of  his  son,  John  Davis,  in 
1798,  shows  that  Martha  Davis  married  after  the  death  of  her 
first  husband,  a  Major  Floyd,  and  had  by  him  at  least  two  chil- 
dren— Wells  and  William  Floyd.  In  this  will,  probated  June 
11,  1798,  John  Davis,  Jr.,  directed  that  his  son,  James  Batte 
Davis,  have  the  proceeds,  when  he  became  of  age,  of  the  sale 
of  a  tract  of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  and  six  negroes  and 
their  increase;  his  daughter,  Martha,  to  have  five  negroes  when 
she  was  eighteen  years  old  or  married ;  his  mother,  Martha  Floyd, 
wife  of  Major  Floyd,  to  have  one  negro,  three  horses,  three 
choice  cows  and  calves,  four  beds  and  other  furniture,  etc.,  which 
was  to  be  sold  at  her  death  and  divided  between  his  two  children 
and  his  two  sisters,  Amy  and  Elizabeth,  and  his  half  brothers, 
Wells  and  William  Floyd.  The  rest  of  his  property  to  his  two 
children  equally.  Wm.  Walker  and  James  Batte  executors. 
Personal  estate  amounted  to  £600  6s.  9d. 

Captain  George  W.  Davis,  Goodes  Ferry,  Va.,  and  the  wife 
of  Mr.  H.  F.  Hutcheson,  clerk  of  Mecklenburg  county,  are  said 
to  be  descendants  of  this  family.  Data  of  other  descendants 
not  available. 

10.  James  Davis,  born  in  1741,  died  in  1792  in  Spotsylvania. 
He  was  not  married  when  he  joined  his  brother,  Benjamin,  and 
the  latter's  wife  in  a  deed  Jan.  17,  1771,  to  John  Nelson.  His 
will,  dated  July  14,  1790,  names  wife,  Sarah,  and  mentions  their 
children  without  naming  them.  They  had  sons ;  Fielding,  John, 
Wm.,  James,  Thomas,  and  Joseph,  and  possibly  other  children. 
All  are  said  to  have  moved  to  Kentucky  prior  to  1800. 

11.  Benjamin  Davis,  born  1743,  died  in  1791  in  Spotsylvania, 
will  probated  March  1,  1791.  Wife,  Elizabeth,  and  Edward  Col- 
lins executors.  He  married  prior  to  January  17,  1771.  April  1, 
1794,  Edward  Collins  gave  bond  as  guardian  of  James,  Lewis, 
Benjamin,   Elijah,    Richard  and  Acy  Davis,   orphans   of   Benj. 


162  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Davis,  deceased.  Benj.  and  Elizabeth  Davis  had  at  least  one  son 
of  age  in  1791 — See  Polly  Davis  letter.  Benjamin  Davis  was 
a  subaltern  in  a  company  under  Captain  Wm.  Mills  in  the  Revo- 
lution, as  shown  by  the  pension  declaration  of  his  brother,  Thomas 
Davis,  in  1818.  (See  Boogher's  Gleanings  from  Virginia  History, 
page  327.) 

Most  of  Benjamin  Davis'  sons  moved  to  Kentucky  and  Ten- 
nessee. James,  the  eldest  son,  married  his  cousin,  Mary  Davis, 
and  had  several  children,  among  others  a  son,  John  Carter  Davis, 
a  soldier  in  the  Mexican  War.  He  married  Elizabeth  Anderson 
and  settled  in  Grimes  county,  Texas,  where  he  acquired  a  good 
deal  of  land.  They  had  issue :  James  Davis,  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Confederate  army ;  John  Davis,  and  Benjamin  Davis,  both  of 
whom  served  as  privates  in  the  Southern  army ;  and  daughters, 
Elizabeth,  Mary,  Margaret  and  Sarah. 

14.  William  Dale  Davis,  is  said  to  have  removed  with  his 
brother  John  to  Mecklenburg,  and  the  census  of  1782  shows  that 
there  was  a  Wm.  Davis  in  that  county  the  head  of  a  family  of 
five  and  four  servants.  The  Davis  family  of  Spotsylvania  are 
said  to  have  been  cousins  of  the  several  families  of  Davis  liv- 
ing in  Mecklenburg,  prior  to  the  settlement  of  John  Davis  in 
1766.  The  census  of  1782  shows  that  besides  John  and  William 
mentioned  above,  there  were  the  following  heads  of  families  by 
this  name:  Wm.  Davis,  a  justice  of  the  county  court,  who  was 
the  head  of  a  family  of  nine  and  owned  forty-five  servants — it 
is  evident  that  he  was  not  the  father  of  the  other  William  Davis 
mentioned,  else  the  distinguishing  Sr.  and  Jr.  would  have  been 
used;  Baxter  Davis,  head  of  family  of  nine  whites  and  twenty- 
one  servants ;  Lewis  Davis,  of  five ;  Edward  Davis,  of  four  and 
thirteen  servants ;  and  Joshua  Davis,  of  seven  whites  and  thirteen 
servants. 

15.  Mary  Davis,  born  May  24,  1753,  died  after  1792,  in  which 
year  she  was  unmarried.  She  shows  something  of  herself  in 
the  following  gossipy  letters  written  to  her  brother,  Thomas, 
after  he  removed  to  Kentucky : 


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Broadfield,  Octr  27-1789. 
Dear  Sister,  Mr.  Jones  brought  your  Welcome  Letter  today  and  I 
hasten  to  tell  you  how  Happy  we  are  to  hear  from  you  &  bro.  Tom  and 
Betty  &  Polly  again.  We  are  delited  to  hear  you  are  Well  and  have  a 
little  Boy  now  and  call  him  Fielding.  That  is  a  Good  Name.  I  suppose 
we  will  never  see  any  of  you  again  it  is  so  far  to  Kaintucky.  We  went 
into  Fredericksburg  last  week  to  the  Races  &  saw  Mr.  Catlett  and  your 
Cousin  Larkin.  They  ask'd  about  you  &  hop'd  the  Savages  haven't  killed 
you.  Cousen  Beverly  W.  (supposed  to  have  been  Beverley  Winslow,  who 
was  said  to  have  been  related  to  the  Carters,  and  thus  related  to  the 
Davises  of  Broadfield)  and  Mr  Mann  Page  dined  here  last  Sunday.  Cousen 
Beverly  is  as  fine  looking  as  ever  &  Mr  Page  is  one  of  the  most  elegant 
Gentlemen  I  ever  saw.  We  had  a  Viset  in  the  Summer  from  Cousen 
Eppa  Filding  &  Edwin  F.  who  we  never  saw  before.  They  are  fine  looking 
men  and  very  Clever  gentlemen.  Cousen  Edwin  talks  of  going  to  Ken 
and  says  he  will  go  to  see  you.  Two  weeks  ago  I  went  to  a  big  Ball  at 
Newlands.  Elliot  Herndon  and  Cousen  Sally  Carter  were  there  and  very 
Lover  like.  Polly  Carter  is  a  great  ...  of  beauxes.  I  wore  my  straw 
colored  Sattin  and  new  .  .  .  Jack  Gordon  was  attentive  to  Betty 
Thornton  &  Mr  Spottw  ...  to  Polly  Thornton.  She  wore  a  blew 
Lutestring  .  .  .  white  muslin  .  .  .  Mr.  Mortimer  was  .... 
Benton  and  Mr.  R.  .  .  .  Mr  &  Mrs.  Stannard  of  Roxbu.  ...  I 
shall  be  happy  to  do  .  .  .  they  will  regain  .  .  .  Cousen  John 
Davis  ...  he  said  all  was  .  .  .  Have  you  built  your  .  .  .  ex- 
pect to  go  into  Lexington.  ...  It  has  been  very  Sickley  .... 
Brother  Williams  Family  was  sick  all  summer  and  little  Carter  died  in  July, 
old  mrs  Bowles  died  on  the  first.  Little  Fieldin  Corbin  is  very  sick  with 
sum  sort  of  Fever.  I  know  you  &  bro  Tom  will  be  sorry  to  hear  the  old 
Home  Place  was  burnt  up  on  the  10th  of  last  month,  brother  James  lost 
all  his  furniture  and  the  portraits  of  grandfather  &  grandmother  Davis, 
and  great  grandfather  &  grandmother  Fielding.  They  saved  the  spoons 
and  the  old  Fielding  Tea  Service  but  not  the  candlesticks.  The  Fire  was 
about  midnight  and  brother  James  &  his  family  Bearly  got  out  Alive. 
They  are  living  now  in  the  little  house  where  you  use  to  live.  Old  Mr. 
Stubble  fields  Horse  fell  down  with  him  about  two  weeks  ago  and  broke 
his  Leg  and  he  is  in  a  Bad  Way  I  here.  I  saw  Mr  and  Mrs  Maurye  at 
Church  and  they  asked  about  you  and  how  you  lik  the  land  in  Ken'ky. 
A  great  many  people  here  are  talking  of  Settling  in  that  Country  for  their 
land  is  getting  so  poore  here  and  Money  hard  to  get  a  holt  of.  Write'us 
by  every  Person  that  comes  this  Way  for  we  are  Anxious  about  you  dear 
sister  and  brother  in  that  far  Wild  country.  God  prosper  and  protect  you 
both  is  our  constant  Prayer. 

Affect'ly  Your  Sister 

Polly. 


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October  30th 
Mr  Wilhite  informs  me  he  will  not  set  out  to  Kaintucky  til  next  week 
so  I'l  conclude  to  finish  my  sheet.  I  forgot  to  tell  you  George  Anderson 
&  his  Bride  who  was  Berkeley  Clarke  was  at  the  ball.  She  is  a  prettie 
little  thing  and  wore  white  gause  over  pink  silk  with  pink  silk  roses  in 
her  hair.  They  were  very  Loving.  This  is  a  miserable  Pen  and  John  is 
not  here  to  make  me  a  new  one.  The  Ball  was  a  splendid  one  Beautiful 
Ladies  and     •    „     .     (The  rest  of  the  letter  is  torn  off.) 

Addressed  to  Mrs-  Susannah  Davis,  near  Lexington,  Kaintucky. 

Broadfield  4th  Aprill  1790. 
Dear  Brother.  Mr  John  Hardin  from  Staff 'd  has  just  stopped  for  the 
Refreshment  of  himself  &  his  horse  and  I  will  avale  myself  of  the  oper- 
tunity  to  send  you  dear  Tom  a  few  lines  as  he  is  on  his  way  to  Lexinton 
and  expecks  to  join  some  Friends  in  Amherst  and  Bedford  next  week. 
This  is  the  first  opertunity  Ive  had  to  write  you  since  in  the  fall  thow 
you  &  yr  Family  is  always  in  our  Minds  &  Harts  and  never  a  day  we  do 
not  talk  of  you.  Bro.  Ben  has  been  in  a  pore  State  of  Health  all  winter 
and  I  fere  will  never  be  any  better  in  this  World  but  he  has  made  his 
Peace  with  God  &  is  redy  to  go-  he  coffs  most  all  the  time  and  has  fallen 
to  skin  &  bones.  Bettie  as  you  know  is  all  a  good  wife  ought  to  be  and 
tends  his  every  wish  and  the  boys  take  the  care  of  everything  from  him. 
His  oldest  son  has  taken  to  himself  a  wife  since  I  wrote  you  a  Miss 
Hampton  of  Fairfax.  She  is  aclever  Sensible  girl  20  years  old  and  with 
some  Mony  from  her  mother  the  1st  Wife  of  mr  John  Hampton  junr. 
They  stay  at  brother  Bens  now  but  talk  much  of  going  out  to  Kaintukie — 
at  least  they  will  not  stay  here  long,  brother  James  also  talks  of  selling 
out  here  &  taking  his  family  to  your  section  as  the  land  is  so  pore  here. 
Fielding  tends  to  be  a  little  Wild,  but  a  good  wife  will  Quiet  him  I  know 
nothing  like  a  good  Woman  to  make  a  good  Man.  John,  Wil  &  Jo  are 
Stedy  enough — Jimmie  is  a  great  Gallante  with  the  girls  but  Tom  is  the 
handsomest  one  of  all  and  in  a  few  more  years  will  make  all  the  grls 
harts  pitty  pat  when  he  comes  near,  the  last  we  had  from  bro  Will  they 
was  well  and  happy.  The  roads  was  dredful  all  winter  and  I  did  not 
stirr  far  from  home  amused  my  self  reading  all  the  books  of  the  neigh- 
borhood some  entertaining  Novells  lately.  Cousin  Jo  Carter  was  over 
from  Orange  to  cous.  Johns  some  two  weeks  ago  and  come  to  see  us  he 
says  uncle  John  is  broken  so  since  aunt  Susanah  died  the  rest  was  well- 
Mr.  Hardin  has  sent  for  his  horse  to  be  off  so  must  close  with  our  best 
love  and  Respecks  to  you  &  Sister  &  the  dear  Children,  brother  never 
let  pass  any  opertunity  to  send  us  in  a  letter  and  we  will  do  the  same. 
Hope  you  can  come  in  to  see  us  this  summer.    God  bless  all  of  you. 

Yr  sister  Mary  Davis. 


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Broadfield  Spotsylvania  Virginia  Novem**  6th  1792. 

Dear  Brother  &  Sister. 

I  reseaved  your  letter  of  Aug't  2  which  gave  me  the  Agreeabel  Account 
of  yourselves  &  Familys  health  which  I  pray  God  may  continue  you.  We 
have  lost  so  many  of  our  Dear  Ones  in  the  past  five  year  Our  Dear 
Mother,  Bro.  Benjamin  little  Carter  &  Bro  James.  As  for  myself  I  thank 
Providence  I  am  in  Perfect  Health.  I  had  great  thought  of  going  out  to 
you  in  the  Summer  when  Mr  Aliens  family  set  out  to  Caintucky  but  my 
Hart  failed  me  &  went  over  in  Stafford  &  Westmor'ld  for  a  month.  I 
stayed  2  weaks  in  Westmor'd  at  Uncle  William  Smiths  &  a  day  &  night 
with  Cousen  John  &  Elizabeth  Davis.  They  are  in  a  Bad  Way  now  they 
think,  cousen  J.  is  a  bad  Manager  and  they  had  to  sell  most  of  the  land 
and  all  the  black  People  but  8-  Uncle  W'illiam  has  a  very  pleasant  seat  on 
Norniny  River  and  has  set  up  a  Chariotte.  One  Sunday  we  drove  to 
Ucomico  Church  in  great  stile.  Mr  Berkeley— Mr.  Thos  Beal  &  Coll.  Ball 
dined  at  Uncle  Williams  one  day  and  Mr  Berkeley  inquired  of  you.  He 
says  K  is  a  great  country  &  thinks  of  going  out  and  wants  you  to  write  him 
about  the  best  Lands.  Cousen  Edward  Carter  &  his  Lady  drove  over  from 
Lancaster  and  stayed  a  day  &  night.  I  never  saw  them  before.  Cousen  E. 
is  a  man  of  few  words  and  much  Sense  and  Learning,  he  has  a  blunt 
mannor  &  drole  way  of  expressing  himself.  His  Wife  is  a  Proud  Peace 
with  a  sharp  tongue  &  not  Pretty.  Uncle  William  drove  me  over  in  his 
Chair  to  uncle  John  Davises  and  from  there  I  went  the  round  of  all  the 
Carters  and  Davises  in  Staford.  God  is  granting  them  all  good  Health  & 
Prosperity.  I  thot  you  knew  the  old  Fielding  Bible  was  burnt  up  in  the 
oldhouse.  I  have  the  Davis  Bible  &  will  enclose  you  a  copy  from  it.  I 
think  you  do  right  to  put  these  records  in  your  Bible  for  your  Children. 
Grandfather  Joseph  Carter  died  in  the  Spring  two  years  before  I  was  born 
that  would  make  it  April  or  May  1751.  I  think  he  was  about  53  or  54 
years  old.  Grandma  Carter  you  remember.  As  soon  as  I  can  I  will  go 
to  see  Uncle  Joseph  Carter,  and  write  Uncle  Robert  and  see  if  they  can 
give  me  the  Carter  record.  I  think  Uncle  John  use  to  have  the  old  Bible 
of  mothers  Grandfather  old  Maj.  Thos.  C.  of  Lancaster.  God  must  be 
prospering  you  if  you  can  have  a  Silver  Teapott  &  Shugar  Dish.  I  did 
not  think  Lexington  was  big  enough  to  have  a  silversmith.  Miss  Betty 
Clayton  drank  tea  with  me  last  Friday  &  I  got  her  to  draft  the  coats  of 
arms  from  the  old  Fielding  Teapott  for  you  they  are  just  the  same  on  the 
other  things.  Are  you  going  to  have  them  on  your  teapott?  I  guess  the 
Davises  never  had  any.  Uncle  John  Carter  had  a  very  curious  old  cup 
that  belonged  to  the  Carters  along  time  ago  in  England.  It  had  a  lions 
head  holding  a  star  with  a  long  tail  in  his  mouth.  I  dont  remember  what 
was  on   the  sheald.     So  little   Betty   and    Polly  are   getting   to   be   great 


166  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Beautys — I  did  not  doubt  theyd  be  in  your  eyes,  and  Buty  is  a  great  ad- 
vantage to  our  Sex  as  I  have  felt  the  lack  of  before.  How  Time  flies  by 
heres  little  Fielding  three  &  a  half  and  Larkin  past  one  and  never  saw 
their  aunt  Polly.  You  must  tell  them  every  day  about  me  and  may  be 
Providence  will  bring  us  alltogether  again.  Your  old  friend  Captain 
John  Herndon  has  a  fine  Son  just  a  month  old  today,  they  call  him  Ed- 
ward Hampton.  I  send  a  bundle  of  the  Virginia  Heralds  which  I  am  sure 
will  afford  you  so  great  Satisfaction  bro.  Tom  will  not  mind  paying  the 
carriage  on  them.  And  I  put  in  them  a  red  ribbin  for  Polly  &  a  blue  one 
for  Betty  from  their  Aunt  Polly  with  her  Love.  Tell  Mam  Sara  rachel  & 
Dick  have  a  fine  boy  and  they  call  him  George  Washington.  We  have  had 
a  number  of  Deaths  in  the  last  three  months  of  a  Fever  &  Disentery.  Mr. 
Duvall,  Mrs.  Nicho.  Hawkins,  John  Shirley,  Peter  Linn,  and  a  lot  of  blacks- 
We  made  a  pore  Crop  Tobaco  this  year — the  crop  of  Corn  is  Prety  good. 
Money  seems  harder  to  get  holt  of  than  during  the  War.  The  People  are 
all  stird  up  over  old  John  Bagwel  whipping  his  black  Wench  nearly  to 
death.  Such  a  black  hearted  Rascal  oughtnt  be  allowed  to  have  black  Peo- 
ple. Mr  Wyatt  told  me  the  poor  things  back  was  cut  up  like  a  piece  of 
raw  meat.  Pray  present  my  Compliments  to  Mr.  Aliens  Family  when  you 
see  them.  I  must  confess  I'd  be  heartily  glad  to  see  you  bro.  To  over  here 
next  Summer  if  I  do  not  set  out  to  Kentuckie.  God  keep  and  Prosper  all 
of  you. 

Affect'ly  yr  Sister 

Polly. 


Woodford  County.  Ky.,  Davis  Family. 

18.  Thomas  W.  Davis,  youngest  child  of  James  and  Mary  E. 
Carter  Davis,  was  born  at  "Broadfield,"  Spotsylvania  county, 
Va.,  Nov.  30,  1761,  and  died  at  "Sinking  Creek,"  Woodford 
county,  Ky.,  Nov.  8,  1839.  Though  his  father  died  four  years 
after  he  was  born,  Thomas  Davis  received  a  good  education,  and 
after  he  removed  to  Kentucky  turned  it  to  good  account  by 
teaching  school  for  a  number  of  years.  In  April,  1788,  he  ad- 
vertised in  one  of  the  old  Kentucky  Gazettes  for  a  school,  and 
mentioned  that  he  could  teach  "reading,  writing  and  arithmetic, 
its  various  branches,  bookkeeping,  surveying  and  navigation, 
geography  or  the  use  of  the  globes,  &c."  The  records  of  Wood- 
ford county  show  that  he  made  a  number  of  land  surveys  in 
that  county. 


Thomas   Davis,  Woodford  County.   Ky. 
(Miniature   r.bout    1795). 


Jroadfield,"   Spotsylvania  County.  Va.,    (from  old  drawing). 
Birthplace  of  Thomas   Davis. 


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April  25,  1779,  he  enlisted  under  Captain  Alexander  Parker, 
in  Colonel  Richard  Parker's  Virginia  regiment  in  the  Revolution, 
and  according  to  his  sworn  declaration  on  file  at  Washington,  he 
saw  eighteen  months'  service ;  was  during  that  time  stationed  at 
Williamsburg  for  two  months,  in  the  battle  of  Waxhaws  and 
the  siege  of  Yorktown,  where  he  saw  General  Cornwallis  sur- 
render. August  18,  1818,  he  received  a  pension  for  his  services 
in  the  Revolution.  (See  Booghcr's  Gleanings  from  Virginia 
History.) 

May  1,  1783,  Thomas  Davis  was  married  in  Orange  county  to 
Susannah  Hyatt  with  her  brother,  John  Hyatt  as  security  on  the 
marriage  bond.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah 
Hyatt,  her  father  having  died  prior  to  her  marriage.  Susannah 
Davis  had  brothers,  John  Hyatt,  who  died  in  Orange  county  in 
1789;  William  Hyatt  who,  with  wife,  Tabitha,  was  living  in 
Lincoln  county,  Ky.,  March  23,  1789,  when  they  joined 
brother,  John  Hyat,  of  Orange  county,  Va.,  in  a  deed  for  a  hun- 
dred acres  of  land ;  Stephen  Hyatt,  who  with  his  wife,  Sally, 
sold  their  home  place  in  Orange  on  Sept.  28,  1789,  preparatory 
to  removing  to  Kentucky;  and  Benjamin  Hyatt. 

In  preparation  for  his  marriage  an  old  account  book  gives  the 
following  items:  "February  17,  1783  Paid  for  &  brought  home 
from  Fred'ksb'g  my  Wedding  Cloathes  £18.3.  1  Black  Velvet 
Coat,  I  Green  Silk  Waistcoast,  1  pr  black  Cloath  Breeches,  1 
pr  Silk  Stockings  and  one  Hat."  In  1781  Thomas  Davis  pur- 
chased a  tract  of  400  acres  of  land  in  Orange  county  from 
George  Grace,  and  after  his  marriage  continued  living  there 
until  in  February,  1784,  he  sold  this  place  to  Wm.  Knight,  and 
probably  returned  to  Spotsylvania,  as  he  was  living  in  that  county 
when  he  removed  to  Kentucky  in  the  fall  of  1787.  His  mother 
and  sister,  Mary,  are  said  to  have  lived  with  him  until  his  mar- 
riage, and  this  would  account  for  the  fact  that  in  1782  he  ap- 
peared as  the  head  of  a  family  of  three  and  six  servants.  The 
little  account  book  quoted  before,  gives  the  names  of  fourteen 
servants  that  he  had  when  he  removed  to  Kentucky,  six  of  whom 
had  been  brought  to  him  by  his  wife.  They  were:  Sarah  (the 
old  Davis  nurse  or  "Mammy"),  Adam,  Rachel,  Matthew,  Pallas, 


168       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Mary,  Ball,  Josiah,  Martin,  Carter,  Jane,  Priscilla,  Willia  and 
Fanny.  His  Bible  records  filed  at  Washington  give  the  names 
and  dates  of  birth  of  eleven  others,  as  follows :  Betty,  Rachel, 
Aggy,  George  Lavvson,  Mary,  Jr.,  Minnie,  Mariah,  John  Bull, 
Charles  Lewis ;  and  the  inventory  of  the  estate  names  four  chil- 
dren born  later,  viz.,  George,  Priscilla,  Sarah  and  William.  His 
granddaughter,  Miss  Sallie  Jelf,  also  gives  the  names  of  several 
other  servants  who  do  not  appear  in  any  of  the  above  lists, 
among  them  a  big  Guinea  negress  named  Nan,  who  had  lost 
but  little  of  her  savagery  since  coming  to  this  country.  She 
frequently  went  on  a  rampage  and  "cleaned  up  the  place,"  on 
one  occasion  poisoning  thirteen  of  the  other  servants  badly,  after 
which  she  was  sold  to  the  cotton  plantations  in  Mississippi.  On 
one  occasion  he  was  offered  a  hundred  acres  of  land,  which  is 
now  in  the  city  of  Lexington,  for  a  favorite  house  servant.  The 
little  account  book  gives  lists  of  the  new  furniture  purchased 
in  1783  for  their  home  and  also  of  the  old  things  brought  from 
their  former  homes ;  among  the  new  things  purchased  on  June 
7,  1783,  were  a  chest  of  drawers,  a  mahogany  dressing  glass,  a 
cherry  bedstead,  a  large  and  a  small  cherry  table,  a  small  chest 
of  drawers,  a  candle  stand,  twelve  winsor  chairs  and  two  leather 
chairs,  a  pair  of  brass  candle  sticks  (now  owned  by  the  writer), 
a  looking  glass  in  a  gilt  frame,  a  set  of  blue  decorated  dishes. 
The  old  furnishings  listed  contained  about  everything  necessary 
for  an  ordinary  house.  July  2,  1783,  he  purchased  a  dozen  silver 
teaspoons,  half  a  dozen  tablespoons  and  a  small  silver  ladle. 
These  spoons  were  taken  with  them  to  Kentucky  and  were  among 
the  first  silver  spoons  in  that  State.  They  descended  to  the 
eldest  daughter,  Betty,  wife  of  Rev.  Beverley  Allen,  whose  de- 
scendants still  have  them.  Among  other  items  in  this  little  book, 
which  covers  a  period  of  several  years  of  household  expenses, 
are  the  names  of  the  following  books  purchased  at  different 
times:  The  Art  of  Surveying,  Bailes  Dictionary,  The  Surveyor, 
in  4  Vols.,  History  of  Europe,  in  3  Vols.,  Robertson's  History 
of  Scotland,  Shakespeare's  Works,  in  6  Vols.,  Blackw ell's  Clas- 
sics, in  2  Vols..  Malvern  Dale,  a  novel,  Common  Prayer  Book 
and  Domestic  Medicine.     In  1784  he  purchased  a  set  of  survey- 


GENEALOGY  'OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  169 

or's  chains  and  compasses.  The  youngsters  of  a  century  ago 
were  no  more  immune  to  colic  than  those  of  the  present,  so  that 
Dec.  J,  1784,  about  two  months  after  the  birth  of  their  eldest 
child,  we  find  mention  of  "Asafidity  and  Cordial  Drops  for 
Betty."  December  20  he  very  extravigantly  paid  fifteen  shillings 
for  an  English  doll  in  a  red  silk  dress  for  two-months-old  Betty. 

After  selling  his  place  in  Orange,  Thomas  Davis  seems  to 
have  owned  no  land  so  far  as  the  Orange  and  Spotsylvania 
records  show;  and  in  1785  was  hiring  out  his  negroes,  as  the 
following  item  shows:  "Hired  Carter,  William,  Martin,  Fanny 
and  Mary  to  William  Dawson  for  one  year  for  £40  sterling. 
He  is  to  clothe  and  feed  them  well  and  pay  for  a  doctor  if 
much  sick,"  dated  April  1,  1785.  So,  perhaps  it  was  easy  to 
get  him  to  listen  to  tales  of  the  fine  land  in  Kentucky — so  cheap 
as  regards  money,  but  so  dear  when  one  considered  the  perils 
and  hardships  that  must  be  met  by  those  courageous  men  and 
women  who  sought  to  better  their  forturne  in  this  western  wilder- 
ness. Doubtless  there  were  many  long  talks  and  prayers  before 
Thomas  Davis  and  his  wife  decided  to  cut  loose  from  their 
friends  and  relatives  in  Virginia  and  seek  a  new  home  beyond 
the  great  mountain  ranges.  Leaving  what  they  knew  for  what 
they  did  not  know,  breaking  the  last  tie  with  sad  hearts,  to 
press  on  in  uncertainty  as  to  what  the  wilderness  held  in  store 
for  them. 

At  last,  in  the  fall  of  1787,  they  sold  most  of  their  servants 
and  all  household  goods  that  could  not  be  carried  on  horseback, 
took  leave  of  fheir  old  friends  and  associations  and  set  out  on 
their  six  weeks'  journey  through  the  wilderness  to  the  promised 
land  of  Kentucky.  The  main  Wilderness  Road  extended  from 
Philadelphia  to  central  Kentucky,  a  distance  of  825  miles.  It 
crossed  the  Potomac  at  Watkins  Ferry,  and  thence  up  the  Val- 
ley of  Virginia,  through  Winchester,  Woodstock  and  Staunton  to 
Fort  Chiswell,  on  New  River,  built  in  1758  by  Colonel  Wm. 
Byrd.  Here  the  main  road  was  joined  by  another  from  Rich- 
mond and  that  section  of  Virginia  east  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  over 
which  the  Davises  travelled.  From  Fort  Chiswell  it  was  two 
hundred  miles  to  Cumberland  Gap,  where  the  Kentucky  emmi- 


170       GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

grants  reached  the  borders  of  the  great  wilderness,  through  which 
the  trail  led  for  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  miles  to  Harrodsburg. 
Until  1792  this  last  three  hundred  and  twenty-live  miles  of  this 
so-called  "road''  was  merely  a  trail  through  the  woods,  impas- 
sible for  wheeled  vehicles  of  any  kind,  so  that  the  great  tide 
of  emigrants  had  to  make  this  tedious  and  tiresome  journey 
on  horseback  or  on  foot;  a  trail  so  beset  with  ambushed  In- 
dians, ferocious  wild  beasts  and  starvation,  that  hundreds  of 
those  who  set  out  so  bravely,  left  their  bones  bleaching  along 
the  way,  or  met  a  worse  fate  in  some  northern  Indian  town. 

The  caravans  were  made  up  of  men  and  women  on  horseback, 
often  with  one  or  more  children  before  and  behind  them,  pack 
horses  with  huge  packs  of  bedding,  provisions,  etc.,  and  here 
and  there  droves  of  domestic  animals,  many  of  which  were 
forced  to  be  burden  bearers.  The  men  were  well  armed  and 
ever  on  alert  for  signs  of  the  dreaded  Indians.  Fort  Chiswell 
was  the  rendevous,  and  the  different  parties  waited  here  until 
enough  had  come  to  make  it  fairly  safe  to  undertake  the  re- 
mainder of  the  journey.  It  took  William  Brown  from  May 
27  to  July  29  to  make  the  journey  from  Hanover  Court  House, 
Va.,  to  Harrodsburg,  Ken. 

Happy  indeed  must  have  been  Thomas  Davis  and  his  wife 
when  they  at  last  passed  through  this  perilous  way,  and  were 
greeted  in  this  new  country  by  friends  who  had  come  out  before. 

When  they  went  out,  Thomas  Davis  had  the  title  to  1,400  acres 
of  land  on  Green  River,  but  he  chose  to  settle  in  the  southern  part 
of  Fayette  county  near  the  Woodford  county  line  on  a  farm  of 
a  little  over  a  hundred  acres,  which  later  he  gave  to  his  son  Larkin. 
He  was  settled  here  as  early  as  April  5,  1788,  as  one  of  the  copies 
of  the  old  Kentucky  Gazette  preserved  by  the  family  bears  that 
date,  and  is  directed  to  "Thomas  Davis,  Sinking  Creek,"  Fayette 
county.  After  their  arrival  it  took  them  but  a  short  time  to  get 
settled,  as  "A  new  arrival  was  heralded  with  a  cordial  welcome 
for  miles  around  and  a  neighborhood,  which  scarcely  knew  limits 
hastened  to  lend  its  friendly  offices  in  rearing  a  cabin.  A  day 
was  appointed  and  no  invitation  was  needed  to  draw  together  a 
company  of  capable,  willing  hands.     To  assist  in  raising  a  cabin 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  iyi 

for  a  new  family  was  a  duty  which  the  unwritten  law  of  the 
community  imperatively  laid  upon  every  able  bodied  man,  and  to 
know  of  the  occasion  was  a  sufficient  invitation."  A  year  later 
his  sister  Polly  asks  if  he  has  built  his  new  house.  While  in  this 
work  as  in  most  genealogies  emphasis  has  been  laid  upon  the 
possession  of  servants,  silver  spoons,  books,  mahogany  furniture, 
etc.,  we  must  not  forget  that  our  forefathers  in  Kentucky,  like 
their  emigrant  ancestors  in  Virginia,  lived  in  a  primitive  age  and 
during  the  formation  of  a  new  country.  They  lived  most  roughly 
in  their  log  cabins  and  under  many  difficulties — lighting  their 
fires  with  flint  and  steel,  moulding  their  candles  and  pewter  spoons 
in  mould  brought  from  their  old  Virginia  homes,  spinning,  weav- 
ing, and  making  their  own  clothes,  most  of  their  furniture  crude 
and  homemade ;  doing  their  daily  work  or  worshipping  God  on 
Sunday  while  holding  their  guns  in  one  hand  in  momentary  dread 
of  the  terrifying  Indian  warwhop. 

In  1806  Thomas  Davis  purchased  a  small  farm  of  a  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  just  over  the  line  in  Woodford  county,  still  on 
Sinking  Creek,  to  which  he  removed  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  Here 
he  built  a  two-story  hewn  log  house  (later  weatherboarded)  with 
two  rooms  on  each  floor,  and  a  stone  chimney  at  each  end.  In 
the  northeast  corner  of  the  yard  stood  a  two-roomed  kitchen  and 
dining  room  with  an  open  passage  between.  The  house  stood 
about  two  hundred  yards  from  the  road  in  a  grove  of  poplars 
and  cedars.  There  was  a  beautiful  old-fashioned  flower  garden, 
most  of  whose  favorites  came  from  seeds  and  roots  carried  across 
the  mountains  from  the  old  home  in  Virginia.  In  addition  to  the 
home  place  he  purchased  several  other  small  tracts  of  land  in 
Woodford,  some  of  which  he  sold  later,  and  others  gave  to  his 
children,  as  upon  the  marriage  of  each  of  them  he  gave  as  a 
wedding  present,  a  hundred  acres  of  blue  grass  land,  or  its  equiva- 
lent in  negroes. 

In  August,  1809,  the  Lexington  papers  contained  the  advertise- 
ment of  Messrs.  Ollendorf  &  Mason,  "who  respectfully  acquaint 
the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  Lexington  and  Vicinity  that  they  have 
opened  at  the  Kentucky  Hotel  a  new  and  elegant  collection  of 
Wax  figures  equal  if  not  superior  to  any  exhibited  in  America." 


172       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Among  others  mentioned  in  the  advertisement  were:  "An  ex- 
cellent representation  of  Geo.  Washington  giving  orders  to  the 
Marquis  de  la  Fayette,  his  aid,"  "General  Bonaparte  in  Marshall 
Action,"  the  duel  between  Hamilton  and  Burr,  and  a  long  list  of 
other  famous  persons.  And  at  the  end  of  the  advertisement 
stated  that  "PROFILES  TAKEN  WITH  ACCURACY  at  the 
Museum."  A  forty  mile  journey  did  not  prevent  Thomas  Davis 
and  his  family  from  visiting  this  "unsurpassed  collection"  of 
famous  folks,  and  fortunately  he  chose  as  a  souvenir  of  the  oc- 
casion to  have  "profiles  taken"  of  himself  and  wife.  These  quaint 
old  silhouettes  in  the  original  gilt  frame  are  reproduced  here- 
with. This  is  the  only  "likeness"  we  have  of  Mrs.  Davis,  but  a 
well  executed  miniature  on  ivory  of  Thomas  has  been  handed 
down  among  his  descendants  and  is  now  owned  by  the  writer. 
It  seems  to  have  been  painted  in  the  last  decade  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  and  probably  was  executed  by  one  of  the  excellent 
artists  who  had  studios  in  Lexington  at  that  time. 

Some  remininiscences  of  the  old  gentleman,  by  his  grand- 
daughter, Miss  Sallie  Jelf,  of  Mortonsville,  Ky.,  say  that  he  wore 
on  all  occasions  a  "bee  gum  hat" — a  tall  white  beaver — and  always 
carried  a  red  silk  handkerchief,  with  which  to  brush  smooth  its 
nap  when  he  took  it  off.  His  Sunday  clothes  were  of  blue  broad- 
cloth, with  brass  buttons,  and  his  everyday  outfit  one  of  home- 
spun and  his  second  best  beaver  hat.  He  loved  to  have  company 
about  him  and  was  a  good  story  teller ;  and  very  fond  of  teas- 
ing his  wife,  whose  quieter  Welch  blood  didn't  approve  of  much 
hilarity.  Like  most  of  his  day,  when  every  sideboard  bore  a 
decanter  and  every  guest,  no  matter  how  short  the  call,  was  offered 
liquid  refreshment,  he  was  not  a  total  abstainer,  though  he  never 
was  drunk  in  his  life.  "Sometimes  when  he  returned  from  one 
of  his  weekly  trips  to  town  he  would  pretend  to  be  intoxicated, 
and  would  have  the  black  boy,  John,  who  always  waited  to  open 
the  road  gate  for  him,  help  him  from  his  horse  and  into  the  house, 
where  he  would  catch  grandmother  about  the  waist  and  dance 
her  about  the  room,  saying 'Be  jolly,  old  lady !  Be  jolly'!  After 
he  had  teased  grandmother  enough  he  would  settle  down  and  be 
as  straight  as  any  one.    She  was  a  Methodist  and  did  not  approve 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Davis,   (Silhouettes  cut  1809) 
Sinking   Creek,   Woodford  Co.,   Ky. 


Mr.    and   Mrs.    Larkin    Davis, 
(From    badly    preserved    portraits    painted    in    1822). 
Homes    of   Larkin    and    Fielding   Davis   before    the   War 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  173 

of  dancing  or  drinking  at  all.  The  Davises  were  all  sensible 
people  with  good  heads,  which  nothing  could  turn  when  once 
they  set  them  to  anything." 

Thomas  Davis  gave  to  his  children  or  sold  before  he  died  all 
his  land  but  the  home  place  on  Sinking  Creek  and  six  negroes. 
The  inventory  of  his  household  goods  calls  for  a  good  lot  of 
furniture,  such  as  high  post  and  low  post  beds,  two  chests  of 
drawers,  tea  table,  dining  table,  candle  stand,  two  secretaries, 
books,  chairs,  silver  spoons,  etc. 

Thomas  Davis  died  Nov.  8,  1839,  and  his  wife,  Susannah 
Davis,  March  8,  1847.    They  had  issue: 

19.  Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  16,  1784,  in  Spotsylvania  county,  Va., 
died  July  24,  1831. 

20.  Mary  Carter,  born  Dec.  22,  1786,  in  Spotsylvania. 

21.  Fielding,  born  May  9,  1789,  in  Fayette  County,  Ken.,  died 
in  1871. 

22.  Larkin,  born  Sept.  27,  1791,  in  Fayette  county,  Ken.,  died 
Sept.  20,  1840. 

23.  Thomas,  born  Jan.  3,  1794,  died  Oct.  20,  1794. 

24.  Thomas,  born  Aug.  29,  1795,  died  in  May,  181 7,  in  Ten- 
nessee. 

25.  Williamson,  born  April  7,  1798,  died  prior  to  1839. 

26.  John  Carter,  born  June  8,  1800,  died  Aug.  9,  1800. 
2y.  Susannah,  born  Aug.  13,  1801,  died  Nov.  2J,  1861. 

28.  James,  born  April  17,  1804. 

29.  Diana  Dale,  born  June  17,  1806,  died  in  1825. 

30.  Benjamin  Hyat,  born  March  1,  1809,  died  Sept.  6,  1828. 

31.  Sallie  Stevens,  born  April  17,  181 1. 

Davis  Family — Allen  Branch. 

19.  Elizabeth  Davis,  or  "Betty,"  ran  off  at  the  age  of  six- 
teen and  married  Beverley  Allen,  a  young  Virginian  of  good  fam- 
ily, education  and  means,  but  at  that  time  quite  wild,  which  was 
the  reason  for  her  father's  opposition  to  the  marriage.  However, 
he  later  became  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church  and  entered 
the  ministry.  In  1835  he  and  his  brother-in-law,  James  Jelf,  with 
some  assistance  from  other  persons  in  their  neighborhood  had 


174       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

erected  a  stone  church  on  the  land  of  Mr.  Jelf,  which  has  ever 
since  been  known  as  Mt.  Edwin  Chapel  and  is  still  used  by  the 
Southern  Methodists.  For  a  number  of  years  Rev.  Mr.  Allen 
was  the  minister  here,  as  his  home  was  only  a  few  miles  away. 
I  have  not  been  able  to  find  the  names  of  his  parents  or  birth 
place.  He  was  probably  a  member  of  the  prominent  Allen  family 
of  Fayette  county,  Ky.,  to  which  the  distinguished  novelist,  James 
Lane  Allen,  belongs,  as  Beverley  was  a  baptismal  name  in  this 
family  in  the  early  days,  and  the  marriage  and  deed  records  of 
Fayette  prior  to  1825  show  the  names  of  two  or  three  Beverley 
Aliens,  but  neither  of  them  the  one  who  married  Betty  Davis, 
of  Woodford  county.  Between  1822  and  1829  Beverley  Allen 
purchased  several  adjoining  tracts  of  land  on  Clear  Creek,  Wood- 
ford county,  until  he  had  a  beautiful  farm  of  five  hundred  acres, 
only  a  mile  or  two  away  from  the  homes  of  his  wife's  brother, 
Fielding  Davis,  and  sister,  Susannah  Davis  Jelf.  He  and  his 
wife  are  buried  in  a  graveyard  near  their  home,  and  from  the 
marble  slab  over  his  grave  we  learn  that  he  was  born  March  10, 
1785,  and  died  Dec.  24,  1854;  and  his  wife  was  born  Oct.  16,  1784, 
and  died  July  24,  1831.  The  inventory  of  Beverley  Allen's  per- 
sonal estate  amounted  to  $1,400,  and  included  among  other  house 
furnishings,  seven  high  post  beds  with  curtains,  etc.,  three  bureaus, 
two  dressing  tables  and  looking  glasses,  desk,  bookcase  and  a 
great  many  books,  twenty-one  chairs  of  various  kinds,  wardrobe, 
fire  screen,  tall  clock,  twelve  silver  teaspoons,  six  silver  tablespoons 
and  a  silver  cream  spoon  (the  silver  that  Thomas  Davis  pur- 
chased when  he  was  married  in  1783),  a  large  quantity  of  smaller 
furnishings  of  all  kinds,  etc. 

They  had  issue: 

32.  William,  33.  James,  34.  Lewis,  35.  Clemency,  36.  Lucy, 
37.  Betty,  38.  Susannah.  The  descendants  of  Rev.  Beverley  and 
Betty  Davis  Allen  are  nearly  all  farmers  and  stockmen  in  central 
Kentucky. 

32.  William  Allen,  married  Mary  Adkins  and  had  issue: 
Lewis,  William,  Louisa,  Frances  and  Mary  Jane. 

33.  James  Allen,  married  Sallie  Anne  Young,  anl  had  issue: 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  175 

Charlotte,  married  Robert  Hoover ;  David  Jackson,  married  Betty 
Lancaster  and  lives  near  Versailles ;  Reuben,  who  at  the  age  of 
seventeeen  was  married  to  his  father's  first  cousin,  Annie  Davis, 
age  thirteen  years,  daughter  of  Fielding  Davis. 

34.  Lewis  Allen,  a  Woodford  county  farmer,  was  married 
twice,  as  follows:  1st.  Lucy  Dawson,  by  whom  he  had  issue  a 
son  and  daughter:  (1).  James  P.  (2).  Elizabeth,  married  David 
Brandenburg.  He  married  2nd  Sallie  Rumsey,  by  whom  he  had 
nine  children:  (3).  George.  (4).  Lewis.  (5).  Hayden.  (6). 
Beverley.  (7).  Martha.  (8).  Mary  Anne.  (9).  Emiline.  (10). 
Lucy.     (11).  Alice. 

(1).  James  P.  Allen,  married  Gertrude  Walker  and  had  issue 
a  son,  William,  who  died  without  issue,  and  a  daughter,  Lucy, 
who  married  Thomas  Shipp  and  had  a  son,  William.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  on  April  11,  1907,  the  Versailles  paper  contained 
the  following  account  of  James  P.  Allen  : 

"James  P.  Allen,  Esq.,  one  of  the  community's  most  respectable 
citizens,  died  last  Thursday  night  at  the  home  of  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Thomas  J.  Shipp,  in  this  city,  after  a  long  illness,  aged 
6y  years. 

"Mr.  Allen  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  'Squire  Lewis  Allen, 
and  spent  all  his  life  in  this  county.  He  was  a  valiant  soldier 
in  the  Confederate  army  under  General  Morgan  during  the  Civil 
War  and  for  eighteen  months  was  a  prisoner  at  Camp  Douglas. 
He  married  Miss  Gertrude  Walker,  sister  of  Z.  T.  Walker,  of 
this  county.  His  wife  died  many  years  ago  leaving  two  children — 
Lucy,  now  Mrs.  Shipp,  and  William  Allen,  who  died  several  years 
ago.  Mr.  Allen  is  survived  by  one  sister,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bran- 
denburg, and  seven  half  sisters  and  brothers,  viz. :  Mrs.  Martha 
Hitt,  Mrs.  R.  D.  Gregory,  Mrs.  John  T.  Veatch,  Mrs.  Felix  Bun- 
ton,  Mrs.  Alice  Bouldin,  of  Missouri,  and  Messrs.  Hayden  T.  and 
Beverley  Allen.  Mr.  Allen  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church.  He  was  an  honorable,  upright,  kindly  man  and  a  good 
citizen,  who  was  esteemed  by  everybody  who  knew  him.  Funeral 
services  were  held  Saturday  morning  at  10  o'clock,  conducted 
by  Rev.  W.  S.  Grinstead,  assisted  by  Dr.  Williams.     Interment 


176       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

in  family  burying  ground  on  the  Walker   farm  near  Mortons- 
ville.    Confederate  veterans  acted  as  pall  bearers." 

(2).  Elizabeth  Allen,  married  David  Brandenburg,  a  Wood- 
ford county  farmer,  and  had  issue:  James,  Lester,  Lucy,  Lee 
and  Stephen. 

(3).  George  Allen,  farmer,  married  Betty  Raines,  and  had 
issue :  Emma  Lee,  married  Thomas  Eaves,  a  Woodford  county 
farmer ;  George,  a  railroad  engineer ;  Joseph,  a  railroad  engineer, 
and  Benjamin,  an  electrician.  George  Allen,  like  his  brother, 
James  P.,  was  with  General  Morgan. 

(4).  Lewis  Allen,  was  married  twice,  first  to  Sarah  Ellen 
Leach,  and  second  to  Frances  Carter,  and  had  several  children. 

(5).  Hayden  Allen,  a  Woodford  farmer,  married  Sarah  Martha 
Rice  and  has  two  children. 

(6).  Beverley  Allen,  settled  and  married  somewhere  in  Mis- 
sissippi. 

(7).  Martha  Allen  married  Henry  Hitt  (died  1904),  a  Wood- 
ford farmer,  and  had  issue :  Lewis,  William,  Albert,  James, 
Betty,  married  a  Mr.  Reece,  of  Owen  county;  Dora,  married  a 
Mr.  Stephens,  of  Mercer  county,  and  Mattie,  married  Burley 
Hackley,  a  Woodford  farmer. 

(8).  Mary  Anne  Allen  married  Richard  D.  Gregory,  a  Wood- 
ford farmer,  who  died  in  1905.  They  had  issue :  John,  Richard 
and  James,  farmers,  William,  a  midshipman  in  the  U.  S.  N. ; 
Addie,  married  a  Mr.  Shelton,  of  Fayette  county ;  Margaret, 
married  a  Mr.  Smith,  of  Owen  county,  and  Lillie. 

(9).  Emiline  Allen,  married  Felix  Bunn,  an  Owen  county 
farmer. 

(10).  Lucy  Allen  married  John  Veatch,  a  Jessamine  county 
farmer  and  stockman,  and  has  several  children. 

(11).  Alice  Allen  married  James  Bouldin,  of  Mercer  county, 
and  removed  to  Missouri. 

35.  Clemency  Allen,  married  George  Harp,  a  farmer  and 
member  of  a  prominent  Fayette  county  family.  They  had  two 
children,  Lewis  and  Mary  Elizabeth. 


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36.  Lucy  Allen,  married,  first,  James  Hammond,  and  second, 
George  Hall,  both  Woodford  county  farmers.  She  had  issue: 
Beverley  Hammond,  farmer,  married  Atemisia  Chilton ;  Clemency 
Hall,  married  Dudley  Chilton,  farmer ;  Helen  Hall,  married  Asa 
Jewell,  farmer ;  Betty  Hall,  married  George  McCormick,  farmer ; 
Sallie  Hall,  married  James  Roach,  farmer. 

37.  Betty  Allen,  married  Boswell  Hulett,  a  wealthy  Wood- 
ford farmer,  and  had  issue:  Clemency,  married  Hugh  Guym 
a  Woodford  farmer;  Eugenia,  married  a  Mr.  Prather,  farmer; 
Liona,  married  a  Mr.  Prather,  farmer;  Mary  Elizabeth,  died  un- 
married, of  consumption ;  Walter  Hulett,  farmer. 

38.  Susannah  Allen,  married  George  Dawson,  of  Versailles, 
a  contractor  and  house  carpenter,  and  had  seven  children :  Sarah 
Jane,  married  John  Scott,  farmer;  Myrtle  Lee,  married  Albert 
Scott,  a  wealthy  Woodford  farmer;  Lucy  Anne,  married  Uriah 
Young,  a  Woodford  farmer;  Martha,  unmarried,  has  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  been  one  of  the  chief  clerks  in  Landowne's  store  at 
Versailles ;  Edward  Roberts,  a  carpenter  and  contractor,  married, 
first,  Eliza  Young,  and  second,  a  Miss  Hawkins.  During  the 
war  he  was  a  member  of  the  famous  "Orphans  Brigade/'  in  the 
Confederate  army ;  Samuel,  married  Betty  Nance.  During  the 
war  he  was  with  General  Morgan ;  John  Wesley ;  Hubbard  Kava- 
naugh,  and  Joseph.     Most  of  the  above  are  dead. 

39.  Louisa  Allen,  married  Moses  Hoover,  a  Woodford  far- 
mer, and  had  issue :  Alice,  Eudora,  and  Scott,  all  of  whom  re- 
moved to  Indiana. 

Davis  Family — Baker  Branch. 

20.  Mary  Carter  Davis,  born  Dec.  22,  1786,  in  Virginia,  died 
at  an  advanced  age  in  Orange  county,  Indiana.  About  1804-1805 
she  was  married  in  Kentucky  to  James  Baker,  after  which  they 
removed  to  Orange  county,  Indiana,  where  they  purchased  a  farm 
near  Paoli.  He  died  in  1814  and  is  buried  on  his  farm  near  an 
oak  sapling  that  he  selected  just  before  he  died,  which  is  now 
a  great  tree.    He  left  three  small  children  to  his  widow  to  rear 


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and  educate,  a  task  she  performed  with  great  fidelity  and  credit — 
one  son  was  a  prominent  physician  of  his  home  county,  and  the 
other  a  lawyer,  who  for  several  years  was  on  the  bench,  and  be- 
fore the  war  a  candidate  for  Congress.  The  daughter  married 
well.  I  regret  that  the  descendants  of  these  have  furnished  me 
with  so  little  data  of  this  branch  of  the  Davis  family.  The  issue 
of  James  and  Polly  Baker  was : 

40.  John  Baker,  a  lawyer,  judge  of  the  circuit  court,  and  a 
candidate  for  Congress.  He  died  a  great  many  years  ago  in 
Vincennes,  leaving  several  children,  but  of  them  I  have  no  data. 

41.  Jennie  Baker,  married  James  Dillard,  an  Indiana  farmer. 

42.  James  Baker,  M.  D.,  inherited  his  father's  home  farm, 
where  some  of  his  descendants  now  live.  He  was  a  physician 
besides  being  a  farmer,  and  had  an  extensive  practice  in  his 
home  county.  He  married  Sallie  Burgess,  and  had  issue  one 
son  and  three  daughters,  as  follows : 

(1).  A.  V.  Baker,  of  Paoli,  Ind.    No  other  data. 

(2).  Polly  Anne,  married  Dudley  Vickery,  and  died  in  1873. 

(3).  Sarah,  married  Stephen  Byrum,  and  lives  in  Marengo, 
Indiana. 

(4).  Elizabeth,  married  Jacob  S.  Marshall,  a  well  to  do 
farmer  living  four  miles  northeast  of  Paoli.  She  is  now  sixty- 
two  years  of  age.  They  had  issue :  Rev.  John  W.  Marshall,  of 
Chicago,  a  well  known  evangelist  in  the  Christian  church,  whose 
field  of  work  extends  from  Chicago  to  Texas,  and  as  far  in  other 
directions.  James  H.  Marshall,  a  well  to  do  business  man  in 
Oklahoma  City.  Orphes  L.  Marshall,  a  contractor  and  builder 
in  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  Cora  Marshall,  married  Rev.  J.  C.  Mul- 
lins,  of  South  McAlester,  Indian  Territory.  Altha  Marshall, 
married  James  Pickens.  Laura  Marshall  married  Joseph  Pickens. 
Lydia  Marshall  married  Joseph  Cromwell.  The  husbands  of 
the  last  three  are  farmers  and  all  live  near  Orleans,  Ind.  Rev. 
Mr.  Marshall  writes:  "I  am  told  that  I  have  taken  my  features 
largely  from  the  Davis  family.  An  old  gentleman  in  Texas 
recognized  a  peculiar  line  or  mark  on  my  forehead,  and  almost 
gave  the  history  of  my  antecedents.  He  said  this  peculiar  shape 
was  known  only  in  the  Davis  family." 


1.  Fletcher  Davis.   French   Lick,   Ind.      (Photo,   taken  30  years  ago) 

2.  Rev.    John    Marshall.    Chicago,    111. 

3.  Stephen   T.   Davis.  Esq..  Winchester.   Ky. 

4.  Rev.  J.   P.   Davis.   French   Lick.   Ind. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  179 

The  Fielding  Davis  Family. 

21.  Fielding  Davis,  the  first  of  the  Davis  children  that  was 
born  in  Kentucky,  lived  to  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-two  years, 
dying  in  1871.  He  was  born  just  over  the  line  of  Woodford 
county  in  that  part  of  Fayette  which  later  became  Jessamine 
county,  and  spent  all  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  Woodford 
county,  where  he  owned  several  tracts  of  land  and  about  twenty 
to  twenty-five  servants.  His  home  place  on  Clear  Creek  near  his 
brothers-in-law,  Rev.  Beverley  Allen  and  James  Jelf,  contained 
five  hundred  and  ninety  acres.  He  was  married  three  times,  as 
follows : 

First,  to  Susan  Overstreet,  of  the  Mercer  county  Overstreets, 
by  whom  he  had  four  children : 

43.  Thomas  Davis,  born  in  1823,  died  in  1903. 

44.  Allen  Fielding  Davis,  M.  D.,  born  Oct.  2,  1825,  died  March 
31,  1908. 

45.  Eliza  Davis,  born  in  1827. 

46.  Susan  Davis,  born  in  1829. 

He  married  second,  in  1854,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Solomon 
Brandenburg,  a  Woodford  county  farmer  and  millowner,  and 
had  one  daughter,  Anne,  who  married  at  the  age  of  thirteen, 
her  cousin,  Reuben  Allen.  He  married  third,  Eloisefa  L.  Walker, 
who  survived  him  without  issue  and  married  a  Mr.  Rumsey. 

43.  Thomas  Davis,  in  the  latter  years  of  his  life  removed 
to  Kansas,  where  he  died.  He  married  first,  Ellen  Gray,  daughter 
of  Milton  Gray,  a  wealthy  Woodford  county  farmer.  By  this 
marriage  there  were  four  children:  (1).  Eliza,  (2).  John, 
(3).  James,  (4).  Susan.  Thomas  Davis  married  second,  Mary 
Carter,  daughter  of  James  Carter,  of  Woodford  county,  and 
had:  (5)  Maud,  (6).  William,  and  two  others  whose  names 
are  unknown  to  me. 

( 1 ) .  Eliza  Davis,  married  James  Ford  and  removed  to  Kansas, 
where  he  is  a  farmer  and  stockman.  They  have  sons,  Allen 
Warren  and  Zacharay  Thomas,  and  two  daughters. 

(2).  John  Davis,  is  a  large  land  owner  in  Woodford  county, 
Ky.,  and  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  his  section.  He  married 
(1).   Rosa    Hortense   Lillard,   daughter   of   Stephen   Lillard,   a 


180       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

farmer  and  stockman  of  Anderson  county  and  a  member  of 
one  of  the  pioneer  families  of  Kentucky.  By  this  marriage  there 
are  two  sons,  Stephen  T.  Davis  and  Jean  Allen  Davis.  Married 
(2).  Mary  Carpenter  and  has  no  issue. 

Stephen  T.  Davis,  born  Nov.  28,  1883,  received  the  degrees  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts  and  Master  of  Arts  from  the  Kentucky  Wesleyn 
College,  and  Bachelor  of  Laws  from  the  University  of  Virginia 
in  1904.  A  year  later  he  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Winchester, 
Ky.,  and  in  1909  was  elected  to  the  office  of  county  attorney  for 
Clark  County.  He  was  married  in  October,  1905,  to  Susan  H. 
McKinley,  eldest  daughter  of  Dr.  I.  H.  McKinley  and  his  wife, 
Lucy  Taliaferro.  They  have  one  daughter,  Lucy  Taliaferro 
Davis,  born  Jan.  3,  1908.  Jean  Allen  Davis  is  a  graduate  of 
Georgetown  College,  Ky.,  and  lives  at  Versailles. 

(3).  James  Davis  is  a  Kansas  farmer  and  stockman,  and  is 
unmarried. 

(4).  Susan  Davis,  married  Richard  Williams,  and  lives  in 
Lexington,  Ky. 

44.  Dr.  Allen  Fielding  Davis,  born  Oct.  2,  1825,  took  a 
course  of  lectures  at  the  old  Transylvania  University,  and  began 
practicing  medicine  in  his  home  county  before  he  was  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  in  which  he  continued  for  fifty  years.  In  early  life 
he  was  married  to  Catharine  Fur,  who  died  in  1905  at  the  age  of 
77  years.  The  Versailles  and  Lexington  papers  contained  the 
following  notice  of  Dr.  Davis :  "Dr.  Fielding  A.  Davis  died  at 
the  home  of  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Eugene  L.  Lillard.  of  Stout 
Avenue,  Wednesday  at  10  P.  M.  (March  31,  1908),  after  a 
short  illness.  He  was  83  years  of  age  and  was  born  and  reared 
on  a  farm  at  Mortonsville,  where  he  spent  all  his  life  except  the 
last  year  when  he  came  to  make  his  home  with  his  son  and  daughter 
in  Versailles.  For  fifty  years  he  was  a  practicing  physician  of 
that  section  of  the  county  and  beloved  in  every  household.  He  was 
a  great  worker  in  the  little  Methodist  church,  and  was  the  highest 
type  of  kindly,  Christian  character.  His  wife  preceded  him  to 
the  grave  several  years  ago,  and  two  children  survive  him,  Mr. 
Thomas  W.  Davis  and  Mrs.  Eugene  L.  Lillard,  both  residing 
here.    The  funeral  was  held  at  10  o'clock.    Rev.  W.  S.  Grinstead 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  181 

conducted  the  service  and  then  the  body  was  taken  to  the  family 
burying  ground  near  the  old  homestead  in  Mortonsville." 

Dr.  Allen  Fielding  and  Catharine  Fur  Davis  had  issue: 
Thomas  W.  Davis,  a  farmer,  unmarried ;  Yancey,  a  physician,  who 
died  unmarried  ;  and  Susie,  who  married  Eugene  Lillard,  a  wealthy 
farmer  and  stockman.  They  have  two  children,  Catharine  and 
Jean  Allen. 

45.  Eliza  Davis,  married  Benjamin  Wilson,  a  Woodford  county 
farmer,  and  had  issue:  (1).  James;  (2).  Isaac;  (3).  John;  (4). 
George  S. ;  (5).  Jerry;  (6).  Susan  Mary;  (7).  Benjamin;  (8). 
Fielding  S.  a  merchant  at  Mortonsville ;  and  Blanche,  married 
Jos.  Smith. 

(5).  Jerry  Wilson,  married  Fanny  Simer  and  has  issue:  John 
B.,  Williard  and  Eliza.  (8).  Fielding  Suther  Wilson,  merchant 
and  farmer,  married  Sallie  A.  Egbert  and  had  issue:  Benjamin, 
a  merchant  living  in  Kansas,  married  a  Miss  Moseley ;  James,  a 
druggist,  married  a  Miss  Graves  ;  Mary  and  Sallie. 

46.  Susan  Davis,  married  Smith  Overstreet,  a  Woodford 
county  farmer,  and  had  issue:  (1).  Mattie,  died  unmarried; 
(2).  William;  (3).  Milton,  a  lawyer  living  in  Illinois;  and  (4). 
Presley,  a  minister. 

The  Larkin  Davis  Family. 

22.  Larkin  Davis,  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Susannah  Davis, 
was  born  Sept.  27,  1791,  in  what  is  now  Jessamine  county,  and 
died  Sept.  20,  1840,  in  Orange  county,  Indiana.  He  inherited 
the  first  home  of  the  Davises  in  Kentucky,  but  soon  after  he  was 
married  sold  it  and  removed  to  Indiana.  Aug.  5,  1813,  he  was 
married  to  Griselda  Scott,  of  Jessamine  county,  Ky.  She  was 
born  Sept.  19,  1793,  and  died  in  1873.  Mrs.  E.  W.  Mcintosh,  of 
New  Albany,  Ind.,  a  granddaughter,  has  quaint,  old  water  color 
portraits  of  Larkin  and  Griselda  Scott  Davis,  painted  in  1822. 
They  had  issue : 

47.  Sophia,  born  Oct.  18.  1814,  died  1900. 

48.  Thomas,  born  Nov.,  1816,  died  in  1861. 


182  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

49.  Samuel,  born  June  18,  1818,  died  Dec.  30,  1910. 

50.  Sunah  J.,  born  Aug.,  1820,  died  in  1852. 

51.  Fletcher,  born  Dec.  6,  1823,  died  Sept.  8,  1873. 

52.  Sarah,  born  June  13,  1825,  died  1901. 

53.  Mary,  born  Sept.  9,  1827,  living  in  191 1. 

54.  Martha,  born  Oct.,  183 1,  died  in  1902. 

55.  Malinda,  born  Nov.,  1835,  living  at  Denver,  Colo. 

47.  Sophia  Davis,  married  on  Oct.  18,  1832,  William  Craig, 
a  builder  and  contractor,  and  had  six  children.  Two  of  her  sons 
were  in  the  war ;  Isaac  as  captain  of  the  50th  Indiana  Volunteers, 
U.  S.  A.,  and  Armstrong  Craig,  who  was  taken  prisoner  and  died 
in  Andersonville  prison. 

48.  Thomas  Davis,  married  Nov.,  1839,  Sarah  Brown,  and  had 
issue  four  children. 

49.  Samuel  Allen  Davis,  married  in  1845,  Lucretia  Anne 
Pinnick,  whose  father  was  an  officer  in  the  Mexican  War.  They 
were  the  parents  of  fourteen  children.  The  notice  of  Samuel  A. 
Davis  in  the  paper  at  the  time  of  his  death  is  as  follows:  "Uncle 
Samuel  Allen  Davis,  who  has  been  an  invalid  for  a  long  while, 
departed  this  life  Friday,  Dec.  30  (1910),  aged  92  years,  6  months 
and  twelve  days.  He  was  born  in  Jessamine  county,  Ky.,  June 
18,  1 818.  At  the  age  of  four  years  he,  with  his  parents,  came  to 
Orange  county  (Indiana),  being  one  of  our  first  settlers,  where  he 
has  resided  ever  since  with  the  exception  of  a  few  years  spent  in 
Missouri  and  Illinois  in  the  seventies.  In  1845  ne  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Lucretia  Anne  Pinnick,  daughter  of  Colonel  Pinnick, 
and  to  this  union  were  born  fourteen  children,  eight  sons  and  six 
daughters.  After  the  war  the  family  scattered.  One  of  the  older 
boys,  Theodore,  left  home  and  was  heard  of  but  once  or  twice 
indirectly  afterward.  Only  three  of  the  children  reside  in  Orange 
county.  Samuel,  Jr.,  Louis  B.,  who  resides  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  Mrs.  Mary  Moore,  of  Red  Quarry.  Mariah  lives  in  Illinois, 
and  Odison  in  Kansas.  The  rest  are  dead.  Mrs.  Davis  preceded 
her  husband  to  the  grave  several  years  ago,  and  his  body  was 
laid  to  rest  by  her  side  last  Saturday  at  one  o'clock,  in  the  old 
Baptist  graveyard." 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  183 

50.  Sunah  J.  Davis,  married  in  1839,  Bazel  Payne,  and  re- 
moved to  Texas.  They  had  four  children.  One  son,  Davis  Payne, 
was  killed  in  the  Confederate  army. 

51.  Fletcher  Davis,  married  in  Feb.,  1848,  Mary  Pinnick,  and 
had  two  children:  (1).  Rev.  J.  P.  Davis,  a  minister  of  the 
Christian  church  at  French  Lick  Springs,  Ind.  (2).  Emma, 
married  a  Mr.  Underwood,  and  lives  at  Yazoo,  Miss. 

52.  Sarah  Davis,  married  in  1844,  John  Brown,  an  Orange 
county  farmer.  They  had  issue  eleven  children.  One  son,  J.  P. 
Brown,  was  once  a  Commissioner  of  Orange  county ;  and  another 
son,  T.  L.  Brown,  was  sheriff  of  the  county,  and  still  another, 
Wm.  Brown,  was  treasurer  of  Lawrence  county,  Ind. 

53.  Mary  Davis,  married  July  18,  1849,  Jonn  Cobb,  an  Orange 
county  farmer,  and  had  eight    children. 

54.  Martha  Davis,  married  James  Pinnick  and  had  issue  five 
children. 

55.  Malinda  Davis,  married  D.  D.  McElvey,  of  Denver,  Colo. 
No  issue. 

25.  Williamson  Davis,  born  April  7,  1798,  married  March  27, 
1825,  Nancy  Tillery,  and  died  some  four  or  five  years  later,  leav- 
ing two  children. 

Davis  Family — Jelf  Branch  t 

27  Susannah  Davis,  born  Aug.  13,  1801,  died  Nov.  27,  1861, 
was  married  Oct.  7,  1819,  to  James  Jelf,  a  Woodford  county 
farmer.  She  was  the  first  of  Thomas  Davis'  daughters  to  be 
married  at  home,  Betty  and  Polly  both  having  eloped.  James 
Jelf  about  the  time  of  his  marriage  purchased  a  fine  farm  on 
the  Kentucky  River  in  Woodford  county,  but  neglected  to  see 
that  he  had  a  clear  title  to  it,  and  soon  was  involved  in  an  ex- 
pensive law  suit  with  another  claimant,  and  finally  lost  it  alto- 
gether. Having  thus  lost  everything  he  had,  and  with  a  grow- 
ing family,  he  and  his  wife  found  the  next  few  years  extremely 


184       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

hard.  Finally  in  1830  he  purchased  a  small  farm  of  a  hundred 
acres  on  Clear  Creek  near  the  homes  of  his  brothers-in-law,  Field- 
ing Davis,  and  Beverley  Allen,  which  rs  still  owned  by  his  de- 
scendants. Here  he  built  a  two-story  hewn  log  house  of  five 
rooms  and  a  two-room  detached  kitchen  connected  to  the  main 
house  by  an  open  passway,  whose  sides  could  be  opened  in  the 
summer  and  closed  in  the  winter.  The  chimneys  were  of  hewn 
stone  and  each  of  the  large  rooms  had  a  great  open  fireplace.  A 
grove  of  locust  and  cedar  trees  and  a  pretty,  old-fashioned  garden 
adorned  the  outside. 

Like  the  Davises,  James  Jelf  and  his  wife  were  members  of 
the  Episcopal  church,  but  joined  the  Methodists  soon  after  that 
denomination  appeared  in  Kentucky.  In  1835  they  gave  the 
ground  and  a  good  part  of  the  money  used  in  building  Mt.  Edwin 
Chapel,  a  limestone  church  building  still  used  by  the  Southern 
Methodists.  James  Jelf  had  a  fine  old  English  Prayer  Book  with 
many  illustrations  and  possibly  family  records  that  belonged  to 
his  parents  and  probably  grandparents,  which  after  his  death 
was  given  by  his  children  to  a  Mrs.  White,  of  Gloucester,  who 
gave  it  to  a  Rev.  Mr.  Venerable,  an  Episcopal  minister.  But 
further  than  this  I  have  not  been  able  to  trace  it. 

Jelf  Excursus. 

James  Jelf,  born  Jan.  28,  1794,  died  in  1867,  was  the  third  son  of  Isaac 
and  Anna  Crigler  Jelf,  who  had  emigrated  from  Culpeper  County,  Va.,  to 
Lincoln  Co.,  Ky.,  where  they  purchased  a  farm  near  Danville.  In  January, 
1796  following  their  settlement,  Isaac  Jelf  died  of  Pneumonia.  He  was 
the  son  of  Elias  Jelf,  or  Chelf,  as  it  was  originally  written,  and  was  born 
Dec.  25,  1765.  His  wife,  Anna  Crigler,  born  Dec.  16,  1768,  died  in  1854, 
was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Margaret  Aylor  Crigler  of 
Madison  County,  Va.  Nicholas  Crigler  was  one  of  the  Germans  brought 
to  Virginia  by  Gov.  Spotswood  about  1720.  He  lived  on  Robinson's  River 
in  Madison  County,  where  he  was  granted  two  tracts  of  land  containing 
340  acres  and  owned  other  land  by  purchase.  Isaac  and  Anna  Crigler  Jelf 
had  issue :  Joel,  born  Sept.  8,  1787,  died  in  1876  at  Carterburg,  Ind. ; 
Thomas,  born  Dec.  21,  1789,  removed  to  Indiana  about  1835;  Mary  died 
unmarried  at  advanced  age.  She  was  born  Dec.  21,  1791.  James,  born 
Jan.  28,  1794;  and  Isaac,  born  May  5,  1796,  died  Sept.  4,  1877,  in  Woodford 
County. 


i.  James    Fielding   Jelf — in    i855-'s6. 

2.  Finetta  Jelf, — Mrs.    Thos.    Kirby,  and   Son   Giles — in    1862. 

3.  Mary  Elizabeth  Jelf— Mrs.  Jos.  Lyons  and  Daughters,  Josephine, 

and  Joe  Mary —  in   i86o-'6i. 

4.  Thomas  Jelf — about   1859. 


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James  and  Susannah  Davis  Jelf  are  buried  with  other  mem- 
bers of  their  families  in  the  family  graveyard  on  the  old  farm  on 
Clear  Creek.     They  had  issue: 

56.  Finetta,  born  Oct.  23,  1830,  died  in  1884  in  Orange  county, 
Ind. 

57.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  July  13,  1820,  died  May  16,  1890,  in 
Kentucky. 

58.  Patsy,  born  *Dec.  21,  1824,  died  in  June,  1895,  in  Ken- 
tucky. 

59.  Susannah,  born  Oct.  23,  1826,  died  in  Aug.,  1891,  in  Ken- 
tucky. 

60.  Allen,  born  Dec.  7,  1828,  died  Aug.  6,  1834. 

61.  Thomas,  born  Feb.  26,  1831,  died  Jan.  10,  1910,  at  the 
old  home  place. 

62.  Sallie  Stevens,  born  Dec.  16,  1833,  living  in  191 1,  un- 
married. 

63.  James  Fielding,  born  July  9,  1836,  died  March  21,  1861. 
Unmarried. 

64.  Benjamin  Wilson,  born  Sept.  10,  1838,  living  in  191 1. 
Unmarried. 

65.  Eliza  Jane,  born  May  13,  1841,  died  Dec.  5,  1855. 

66.  Judith  Fletcher,  born  Aug.   17,   1842,  died  Oct.  5,   1842. 

67.  Clemency  Harpe,  born  Sept.  12,  1844,  died  in  1872. 

56.  Fixetta  Jelf,  while  visiting  her  uncle,  Larkin  Davis,  in 
Indiana,  met  and  married  a  wealthy  widower  named  Thomas 
Kirby,  and  had  issue:  Giles  Kirby,  now  a  farmer  and  stock- 
man in  Kansas;  Susannah,  married  a  Mr.  Ireland;  Mary;  and 
Anne  Eliza,  each  of  whom  married  a  Mr.  Johnson,  Kansas 
farmers. 

57.  Mary  Elizabeth  Jelf.  married  Aug.  21,  1847,  Joseph 
Lyons  (in  old  county  records  the  name  is  generally  spelled  with- 
out the  final  "s").  born  in  1827,  and  died  of  consumption  in 
May,  1854.  He  was  a  descendant  of  the  Lyon,  Curran  and 
McAfee  families,  all  early  settlers  of  Mercer  county,  Ky. ;  his 
grandmother's  brother,  Gen.  Robert  Breckinridge  McAfee,  was 
a  member  of  the  Kentucky  Senate  for  eight  years,  of  the  lower 


l86       GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

house  for  eleven  years,  lieutenant  governor  of  the  State  1824- 
1828,  United  States  minister  to  the  United  States  of  Columbia 
1833-1837,  etc. 

My  grandmother,  as  I  remember  her,  was  a  tall,  slender  woman 
with  black  hair  and  eyes,  and  a  firm  mouth  and  chin.  She  was 
always  busy,  and  while  at  work  talked  very  little — a  saying  of 
hers  being,  "your  hands  and  your  tongue  can  never  work  at  the 
same  time  without  slighting  the  work  of  one  or  the  other." 
She  was  a  woman  of  strong  religious  convictions,  and  much 
inherent  refinement  and  beauty  of  character.  Left  a  widow 
seven  years  after  her  marriage,  with  four  small  girls,  and  but 
little  means,  as  neither  her  father  or  husband  had  had  much 
of  this  world's  goods,  she  performed  the  task  of  rearing  and 
educating  the  two  daughters,  who  survived  childhood  with  credit 
and  honor  to  herself  and  them. 

Of  my  grandfather,  a  lady  in  Woodford,  who  knew  him  well 
said :  "Joseph  Lyons  was  a  good  man,  the  flower  of  his  family. 
Being  even  tempered,  accomodating  and  a  pleasant  and  inter- 
esting companion,  he  gained  a  host  of  friends  wherever  he  went." 
Another  friend  said:  "I  have  heard  my  father  say  that  Joe 
Lyons  was  one  of  the  finest  men  in  the  county  and  had  friends 
all  over  it." 

Ancestry  of  Joseph  Lyons. 

The  Lyon  family  of  Mercer  County,  Ky.,  has  a  traditional  Virginia 
origin,  but  no  records  have  been  found  that  will  connect  the  emigrants  to 
Kentucky  with  any  of  the  known  Lyon  families  in  the  Old  Dominion. 
However,  the  frequent  use  of  the  names  Stephen,  James,  and  Joseph, 
would  seem  to  connect  the  Kentucky  Lyons  with  the  family  of  Col.  James 
Lyon,  who  was  a  prominent  man  in  Henry  County  before  and  during  the 
Revolution,  and  who  probably  was  the  brother  of  Stephen  Lyon,  killed  by 
Indians  in  1754  on  the  Holston  River.  Col.  James  Lyon,  born  in  March, 
1736,  died  Dec.  29,  1817,  in  Stokes  County,  N.  C.  He  lived  for  a  number 
of  years  in  Henry  County,  Va-,  where  he  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in 
1777,  Lieut. -Col.  of  Militia  in  1780,  etc.  He  had  son  Stephen,  who  died  in 
1820  in  Granger  County,  Tenn. ;  a  son  Humberson,  who  died  in  1793  in 
Virginia ;  and  a  younger  son,  James,  who  died  in  1849  in  Stokes  County, 
N.  C.  Another  son  was  probably  the  ancestor  of  the  Lyons  family  that 
continued  in  Henry  County.  A  Captain  Humberson  Lyon  and  a  Lieut.  Wm. 


James  Henderson  Miller,  Eso..  (1874). 

Mrs.  James  Hexdersox   Miller,  nee  Finetta  Anne  Lyons.   1874.     (minature). 

"Beech   Hill,"   Mason  Co.,   W.   Va.,  Home  of  Henderson   Miller,    1849-1898. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  187 

Lyon  were  in  the  troops  at  King's  Mountain,  from  Washington  County. 
They  may  have  been  sons  of  the  Stephen  Lyon  killed  on  Holston  in  1754. 

The  frequent  use  of  the  name  Stephen  by  the  Kentucky  Lyon  families 
would  indicate  a  connection  with  those  of  Southwest  Virginia. 

Joseph  Lyon,  the  earliest  known  ancestor  of  the  Kentucky  family  was 
settled  on  Lyon's  Run,  in  what  is  now  Mercer  County,  as  early  as  1775, 
when  he  was  one  of  eighty-four  men,  inhabitants  "of  that  part  of  North 
America,  now  denominated  Transylvania,"  to  sign  a  petition  to  the  Vir- 
ginia Legislature  energetically  protesting  against  the  unreasonable  demands 
of  Richard  Henderson  and  his  partners,  and  begging  to  be  taken  under 
the  protection  of  the  government  of  Virginia.  In  the  spring  of  1785  he, 
with  other  heads  of  families,  settled  on  and  near  Salt  River,  Mercer 
County,  assembled  for  the  purpose  of  building  a  house  for  church  and 
school  purposes.  A  log  house  eighteen  by  twenty  feet  was  erected  and 
named  "New  Providence"  in  memory  of  that  awful  day  in  August,  1773, 
when  the  McAfee  Company  on  their  road  back  to  Virginia  from  Kentucky, 
being  without  food  and  water  for  several  days,  had  almost  given  up  in 
despair  on  Big  Black  Mountain,  when  seemingly  as  an  act  of  Providence, 
Robert  McAfee  killed  a  big  buck  standing  near  a  spring  of  water. 

There  was  also  in  Mercer  County,  prior  to  1795,  an  Ezekial  Lyon  with 
several  sons  nearly  or  quite  grown  at  that  time.  His  will,  probated  in 
1839,  names  sons  Stephen,  John,  David,  and  William,  and  daughters  Polly 
Cochran,  Sally  Renear,  Elizabeth  Cochran,  and  Susan  McGee,  also  a 
number  of  grandchildren.  Eekial  Lyons  was  probably  a  brother  of  Joseph 
Lyons. 

Sept.  26,  1803,  Joseph  Lyon  and  Jane,  his  wife,  conveyed  to  Ezekial 
Lyon  80  acres  on  Lyon's  Run;  July  24,  1803,  Jos.  Lyon  purchased  250  acres 
on  McAfee's  Run;  July  22.  1810,  he  had  a  deed  for  150  acres  on  Lyon's 
Run.  He  evidently  owned  land  on  Lyon's  Run  prior  to  1803,  but  I  have 
found  no  deed  for  it  to  him.  Sept.  24,  1824,  he  gave  his  son  Robert  75 
acres  on  Lyon's  Run.  He  died  prior  to  1833,  as  in  that  year  John  Lyon 
gave  his  brother  Robert  a  quit  claim  deed  to  his  father,  Jos-  Lyon's  estate. 
Oct.  4,  1842,  Jos-  Lyon's  heirs  (Nancy  Kennedy,  Stephen,  George,  John 
and  Robert  Lyon)  by  Commissioner  made  partition  deeds  to  John  and 
Robert  for  land  on  Lyon's  Run.  Jan.  3,  1827,  Stephen  Lyon  sold  to  brother 
George  Lyon  150  acres  on  Dry  Run  of  Salt  River.  Deed  signed  by  his 
wife  Anne,  who  was  a  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  McAfee  Curran. 
Her  father  having  come  with  several  other  gentlemen  from  Maryland  at 
an  early  date,  and  tradition  says  they  were  all  married  on  the  same  day  to 
young  women  already  settled  in  Mercer  County.  Sarah  McAfee  Curran 
was  the  second  child  of  Robert  and  Anne  McCoun  McAfee,  born  about 
1770.  Robert  McAfee,  born  July  10,  1745,  in  Virginia,  died  in  a  hospital 
in  New  Orleans,  May  10,  1795,  as  the  result  of  a  blow  on  the  head  with  an 


1 88  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

ax  in  the  hands  of  a  man  who  was  attempting  to  rob  him.  He  was  the 
sixth  child  of  James  McAfee,  Sr.,  and  his  wife  Jane  McMichael,  and  the 
most  daring  and  adventurous  of  the  famous  McAfee  brothers ;  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Battle  of  Point  Pleasant;  a  member  of  the  McAfee  Com- 
pany that  explored  Kentucky  in  1773,  and  author  of  one  of  the  Journals 
kept  upon  that  expedition ;  and  was  Sergeant-at-Arms  of  Col.  Richard 
Henderson's  famous  May  Convention  held  at  Boonesborough  in  1775.  His 
son,  Robert  Breckinridge  McAfee,  probably  the  most  distinguished  mem- 
ber of  this  family,  was  an  officer  of  Col.  Johnson's  (Ky.)  Regiment  in  the 
Battle  of  the  Thames  in  1815,  later  general  of  the  Kentucky  militia;  a 
member  of  the  Kentucky  Legislature  (both  Houses)  for  twenty  years; 
Lieut. -Gov-  of  the  State  in  i824-'28;  U.  S.  Minister  to  the  U.  S.  of  Colum- 
bia, i833-'37;  President  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  to  West  Point  in  1842; 
author  of  some  well-known  MSS.  on  the  early  history  of  Kentucky;  mem- 
ber of  the  Royal  Antiquarian  Society  of  Denmark,  etc. 

James  McAfee,  Sr.,  father  of  Robert,  and  grandfather  of  Sarah  Mc- 
Afee Curran,  was  born  in  County  Armagah,  Ulster,  Ireland,  in  the  old 
stone  house  erected  in  1672  on  the  farm  of  his  grandfather,  John  McAfee 
(this  house  was  still  standing  in  1846).  He  was  the  son  of  John  McAfee, 
Jr.,  and  his  wife  Mary  Rogers.  He  married  Jane  McMichael  in  1735,  came 
to  America  in  1739,  and  died  in  Botetourt  County,  Va.,  in  1785.  John 
McAfee.  Jr.,  born  in  1673,  died  in  1738.  was  a  soldier  under  King  William 
in  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne  in  1690.  as  was  his  father,  John,  Sr.,  who  was 
born  in  Scotland  about  1645,  married  Ellen  Montgomery  about  1670,  and 
removed  to  Ulster  in  1672.  For  an  extended  account  of  this  family  see 
the  "Woods-McAfee  Memorial,"  by  Rev.   N.  M.  Woods. 

Joseph  and  Jane  Lyon  had  issue :  John,  Robert,  George — father  of  Capt. 
Wm.  Lyons-  U.  S.  A.,  and  quite  a  wealthy  man;  Nancy  married  a  Mr. 
Kennedy,  and  Stephen,  who  about  1819  married  Anne  Carter,  daughter  of 
James  and  Sarah  McAfee  Curran.  They  had  issue :  James  Lyons,  who  mar- 
ried Patsy  Jelf;  Thomas  Jefferson;  Jennie  died  unmarried;  and  Joseph 
Lyons,  born  in  1827,  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Jelf  in  1847  and  died  in  1854. 

Anne  Curran  Lyon  died  before  the  Civil  War,  and  Stephen  Lyon  died 
in  1867  at  an  advanced  age.  The  death  of  most  of  this  family  years  ago 
has  made  it  practically  impossible  to  get  any  positive  data  about  them,  and 
what  is  given  is  from  the  recollections  of  my  mother  after  an  absence, 
except  for  brief  visits,  from  her  old  home  for  about  thirty-five  years. 

Allen  Lyons,  a  son  of  James  and  Patsy  Jelf  Lyon,  was  said  to  be  in  pos- 
session of  the  old  Lyon  Bible,  but  claimed  that  the  records  were  too  much 
faded  to  be  deciphered.  Since  his  death  several  years  ago,  the  Bible  has 
not  been  located. 


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GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  189 

Joseph  and  Mary  Elizabeth  Jelf  Lyons  had  issue  four 
daughters : 

(1).  Paralee  Lyons,  born  July  12,  1849. 

(2).  Finetta  Anne  Lyons,  born  Feb.  26,  1851.     My  mother. 

(3).  Josephine  Lyons,  born  Jan.  24,  1853,  died  Sept.  16,  1863. 

(4).  Joseph  Mary  Lyons,  born  Oct.  8,  1854,  died  Sept.  20, 
1863. 

(1).  Paralee  Lyons,  married  in  1871  Thomas  Gillispie,  of 
Woodford  county,  and  had  issue  four  children:  Nettie  May, 
Richard,  Ernest  and  John — all  in  clerical  positions  in  Lexing- 
ton, Ky.  John  served  as  a  private  in  a  Kentucky  regiment  in 
the  Spanish-American  War. 

(2).  Finetta  Anne  Lyons,  was  educated  at  the  Woodford 
schools  and  two  years  at  Millersburg  Female  College,  Kentucky, 
in  1866- 1867.  After  leaving  school  she  taught  in  several  private 
families  in  Kentucky  and  West  Virginia,  until  Sept.  29,  1874, 
when  she  married  at  Versailles,  Ky.,  James  Henderson  Miller, 
of  "Beech  Hill,"  Mason  county,  West  Virginia. 

It  has  been  said  of  her:  "She  is  a  woman  of  fine  personality, 
quiet  in  manner,  educated,  refined,  who  easily  wins  and  keeps 
friends  among  every  class  with  whom  she  comes  in  contact.  She 
always  sees  the  good  in  people,  and  even  her  most  intimate 
friends  never  hear  her  speak  unkindly  of  any  one.  During  the 
thirty  years  she  was  mistress  of  "Beech  Hill"  she  always  met  her 
friends,  and  the  'strangers  within  her  gates,'  with  that  dignified 
cordiality  and  beautiful  hospitality  typical  of  the  Southern  woman 
of  the  old  school." 

Henderson  Miller,  born  June  6,  1829,  in  Mason  county,  Va., 
died  at  "Beech  Hill,"  which  had  been  his  home  for  nearly  fifty 
years,  Feb.  19,  1898,  of  apoplexy.  It  has  been  said  of  him: 
"He  was  a  man  of  very  fine  principles  and  a  high  sense  of  honor; 
he  had  good  business  judgment,  but  believing  other  men  to  be 
of  the  same  high  standard,  he  often  suffered  by  his  confidence. 
Being  fond  of  the  society  of  his  friends  and  neighbors,  especially 
young  people,  he  kept  open  house  the  year  round  at  Beech  Hill 


190 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


to  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances.  Like  his  father 
he  was  a  Mason  for  about  forty  years ;  and  an  active  member 
in  the  Southern  Methodist  church.  In  1858  he  gave  about  three 
acres  of  a  grove  of  original  forest  trees  and  half  of  the  money 
needed  to  erect  a  church,  since  known  as  'Beech  Hill.'  In  an 
unostentious  way  he  did  a  great  deal  of  charity  among  the  poor 
folks  in  the  hill  country  back  of  his  home."  He  was  educated 
by  private  teachers,  had  two  years  at  Gallia  Academy,  and  two 
years  at  Marshall  College,  Cabell  county,  Va.,  in  1845-1846. 
Here  he  had  for  roommate,  Albert  Gallatin  Jenkins,  later  a 
brigadier-general  in  the  Confederate  army,  and  in  1851  grooms- 
man at  the  marriage  of  Henderson  Miller  and  Harriet  Craig, 
daughter  of  James  Kennerley  Craig.  She  was  a  great  grand- 
daughter of  Rev.  John  Craig,  father  of  Presbyterianism  in  the 
Valley  of  Virginia ;  great  granddaughter  of  John  Madison,  first 
clerk  of  Augusta  county,  and  father  of  Bishop  Madison,  the  first 
American  bishop  in  the  Episcopal  church ;  granddaughter  of 
Captain  William  Arbuckle,  a  noted  Indian  fighter;  and  other 
well  known  colonial  Virginians.  Mrs.  Miller  died  in  1872  leaving 
six  children. 

Miller  Excursus. 

James  Henderson  Miller  was  the  only  son  of  John  Miller  of  "Locust 
Hill,"  Mason  County,  by  his  second  wife,  Sarah  Henderson.  John  Miller, 
born  May  19,  1781,  at  Woodstock,  Va.,  died  March  6,  1846,  at  "Locust 
Hill,"  Mason  County,  3rd  son  of  Christian  and  Catharine  Wisemann  Mil- 
ler left  Woodstock  in  1796  to  "go  west"  to  the  Great  Kanawha  Valley  in 
search  of  his  fortune.  As  his  father's  parting  gift  he  received  £40  in  gold 
and  the  advice  to  go  security  for  no  man.  After  a  short  time  at  Fort 
Clendenin,  he  settled  in  the  French  town  of  Gallipolis  as  a  hatter,  where 
he  learned  to  speak  and  read  French,  as  there  were  but  two  English  speak- 
ing men  in  town.  In  1810  he  returned  to  the  Virginia  side  of  the  Ohio 
River,  bought  a  large  farm  and  built  the  second  brick  house  in  Mason 
County,  now  known  as  "Elwell,"  the  homeplace  of  the  late  Judge  C.  P.  T. 
Moore.  A  few  years  later  he  purchased  from  the  heirs  of  General  Wash- 
ington about  nine  hundred  acres  in  the  Kanawha  Valley,  comprised  in  the 
"Locust  Hill"  and  "Beech  Hill,"  farms — the  former  and  part  of  the  latter 
are  still  owned  by  his  descendants.  He  also  owned  a  thousand-acre  farm 
in  Teas  Valley,  and  about  twenty-five  servants.     He  married  in  Jan.,  1806, 


Sergeant  Christian  Miller,  of  The  Revolution. 

(1744- i 836) 

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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  191 

Sophia,  daughter  of  Maj.  William  and  Margaret  Handley  Clendenin.  The 
Clendenins  and  Handleys  are  prominent  in  the  military  and  political  life 
of  the  pioneer  settlements  of  Virginia.  She  died  April  17,  1823,  leaving 
seven  children,  and  he  speedily  consoled  himself  with  another  wife  in  the 
person  of  Sallie  Henderson,  Oct.  23,  1823. 

Christian  Miller,  born  in  1744,  in  Germany,  died  at  Woodstock,  Va., 
April  1,  1836,  and  was  said  by  a  newspaper  of  that  date  to  be  the  last  Rev- 
olutionary War  soldier  in  Shenandoah  County.  In  1771  he  married  Catha- 
rine Wisemann,  born  in  1746,  in  Germany,  died  at  Woodstock,  in  May, 
1837.  From  August,  1780.  till  May,  1781,  he  served  as  a  sergeant  under 
Capt.  Jacob  Rinker  in  the  Revolution — see  U.  S.  Pension  records.  His 
greatgrandson,  Thomas  W.  Miller,  a  Roanoke  attorney,  owns  a  fine  por- 
trait of  Christian  Miller,  said  to  have  been  painted  by  Sully.  He  was  the 
3rd  son  of  Jacob  Mueller,  born  in  Germany  about  1698,  died  at  Woodstock, 
Va.,  in  May,  1766,  and  his  wife  Barbara.  They  landed  on  the  Delaware 
St  Newcastle,  Sept.  15,  1749,  and  two  years  later  settled  in  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  where  he  purchased  from  Lord  Fairfax  and  others  1,950  acres  of 
land,  twelve  hundred  of  which,  according  to  Hening,  he  laid  out  into  lots 
and  streets  and  founded  the  town  of  Woodstock,  incorporated  in  1761. 
His  inventory  amounted  to  £527.  3s.  id.,  and  mentions  two  servants  and 
"to  all  the  Books  English  &  Dutch,  £2.  5s."  See  West  Virginia  Historical 
Magazine,  for  April,  1902. 

Henderson  Excursus. 

Sallie  Henderson  Miller,  born  Jan.  6,  1797,  died  Jan.  26,  1872,  was  the 
3rd  daughter  of  Col.  John  and  Elizabeth  Stodghill  Henderson,  who  settled 
in  1797  on  a  tract  of  1,400  acres  of  land  at  the  mouth  of  the  Great  Kanawha 
opposite  Pt.  Pleasant,  granted  his  father,  John  Henderson,  Sr.,  by  Gov. 
Randolph. 

John  Henderson,  Jr.,  born  in  Botetourt,  Aug.  30,  1768,  died  in  Mason, 
Aug.  19,  1824,  2nd  son  of  "Capt.  John  and  Anne  Givens  Henderson,  is  said 
to  have  to  have  been  a  student  at  the  old  Liberty  Hall  Academy,  now 
Washington  and  Lee  University.  His  parents  moved  to  that  part  of  Green- 
brier now  in  Monroe  County,  about  1775,  where  John,  Jr.,  was  a  lieutenant 
in  the  Greenbrier  Militia  in  1795;  Commissioner  of  the  County  Revenue  in 
i796-'97.  After  settling  on  Kanawha  he  was  a  justice  of  the  first  court  of 
Mason  County  in  1804;  represented  the  county  in  the  Virginia  Assembly  in 
1809,  '10,  '13,  '14,  '17,  '18,  '19,  '20,  '22,  and  '24;  Commissioner  of  Revenues, 
1814;  High  Sheriff,  i8is-'i6;  colonel  of  106th  Regt.  Va.  Militia  as  shown 
by  original  orders  in  i8i2-'i4.  His  correspondence  with  public  men  of  his 
day  show  that  he  was  highly  regarded  by  them.  He  was  described  as  "A 
quiet  courteous  old  gentleman,  given  to  much  reading  and  thinking,  and 
shrinking  from  publicity  though  he  spent  many  years   in  the  public  ser- 


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vice."  A  tax  receipt  in  1815  shows  that  he  owned  550  acres  of  land  and 
12  servants.  In  1792  he  married  Eliabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Harvey  Stodghill  of  Greenbrier,  born  Aug.  3,  1776,  died  Feb.  20,  1846. 
Two  of  her  sisters  married  Hugh  Caperton  and  John  Arbuckle  of  promi- 
nent Greenbrier  families.  Col.  John  and  Elizabeth  Henderson  had  issue: 
Jane,  married  Charles  Hoy;  Sarah,  married  John  Miller,  after  refusing 
four  other  elegible  men;  Rhoda,  married  Henry  Hannan;  Angelina  mar- 
ried Wm.  A.  MacMullen;  Elizabeth  married  Rev.  David  Quinn  Guthrie; 
Nancy  married  Thomas  J.  Bronaugh — see  elsewhere  in  this  work;  Emily 
married  Dr.  Joseph  Cadwallader  Shallcross  of  Philadelphia ;  James  Madi- 
son Henderson,  only  son,  died  unmarried. 

John  Henderson,  Sr.,  born  in  1740,  died  March  24,  1787  in  Greenbrier, 
married  in  1765  Anne  Givens,  sister  of  Eliabeth  Givens,  wife  of  General 
Andrew  Lewis  of  Pt.  Pleasant  fame  (tradition  in  both  families).  At  this 
time  John  Henderson  lived  in  Botetourt,  and  in  1774  served  under  his 
brother-in-law  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  company  of  Capt.  John  Lewis,  at  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  Oct.  10,  1774  (see  Thwait's  "History  of  Dunmore's 
War").  About  this  time  he  settled  in  Greenbrier  County,  and  was  a  cap- 
tain in  the  militia  in  1776  when  he  enlisted  for  three  years'  service  in  the 
Revolution  under  General  Daniel  Morgan;  and  served  until  April,  1779, 
as  Corporal — see  records  of  the  Revolution  at  Washington.  In  Nov.,  1780, 
he  was  a  justice  of  the  Greenbrier  court.  He  left  2,100  acres  of  land  and 
£536  of  personal  property,  including  four  negroes,  to  wife  and  following 
children:  Samuel,  married  Sallie,  daughter  of  Col-  Andrew  Donnally;  John 
married  Elizabeth  Stodghill ;  Margaret  married  Wm.  Vawter  of  a  fine  old 
Essex  County  family;  James  married  Elizabeth  Maddy;  Jean  married  Wm, 
Kirkpatrick ;  William. 

Captain  John  Henderson,  Sr.,  was  the  2nd  son  of  Lieut.  James  Hender- 
son, born  Jan.  17,  1708,  died  in  1784  in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  and  his  wife, 
Martha  Hamilton  (married  June  23,  1738),  daughter  of  Audley  Harrison 
Hamilton,  "gent.,"  and  his  wife  Eleanor  Adams.  James  Henderson  came 
to  Virginia,  circa,  1740,  and  served  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War — see  Hening,  Vol.  VII.  He  was  the  2nd  son  of  William  Hen- 
derson, Gent.,  born  April  30,  1676,  died  Aug.  1,  1757,  son  of  John  Hender- 
son, Gent.,  of  Fifeshire,  Scotland.  Wm.  Henderson  married  Feb.  5,  1705, 
Margaret  Bruce,  born  March  1,  1680,  died  Dec.  15,  1759.  See  West  Vir- 
ginia Historical  Magazine  for  April,  1905,  and  "Ancestry  and  Descendants 
of  Lieutenant  John  Henderson. 

The  order  for  Sallie  Henderson's  wedding  outfit,  which  was  carried  on 
horseback  over  the  mountains  from  Richmond  calls  for  a  white  satin  dress, 
seven  India  lawn  and  book  muslin  dresses,  five  silk  dresses,  and  four  crepe 
dresses,  with  the  various  accessories  to  complete  the  toilets.  John  and 
Sallie  Henderson  Miller  had  issue:  Elizabeth,  married  Rev.  John  Van  Pelt; 


Mrs.  Joseph   Lyon   Miller    (nee   Pamelia  Hampton). 

Ireland  Fielding  Miller  and  Henderson  Hampton  Miller  (at  age  of  2  years)- 

John  Hampton  Miller   (at  age  of  4  years.) 

Dr.  Joseph  Lyon  Miller. 


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Nancy,  married  Rev.  Stephen  K.  Vaught ;  Anne  Eliza,  married  Capt.  Robert 
Buffiington ;  Mary  Caroline,  married  A.  P.  Chapman ;  Roda  James,  married 
Capt-  Edmund  Pendleton  Chancellor;  Emily,  married  Hunter  B.  Jenkins; 
and  James  Henderson  Miller,  only  son. 

James  Henderson  and  Finetta  Anne  Lyons  Miller  had  issue 
two  sons:  Joseph  Lyons  Miller,  M.  D.,  born  Oct.  10,  1875; 
Stephen  Kisling  Miller,  born  March  9,  1880. 

It  is  hoped  that  it  will  not  be  thought  out  of  place  for  the 
author  of  this  work  to  state  a  few  facts  concerning  himself.  I 
was  born  at  "Beech  Hill,"  Mason  county,  ten  miles  up  the  Kan- 
awha from  Point  Pleasant,  where  my  great,  great  grandfather, 
John  Henderson,  fought  the  Indians  exactly  one  hundred  and 
one  years  previously ;  and  reared  in  a  neighborhood,  whose  ideals 
and  customs  had  been  handed  down  from  an  old  Virginia 
ancestry.  In  1892  entered  Morris  Harvey  College,  Cabell  county, 
and  continued  there  two  years ;  in  1895  won  a  two  years  scholar- 
ship by  competitive  examination  at  the  University  of  Nasville ; 
and  in  Oct.,  1897,  entered  the  University  College  of  Medicine 
at  Richmond,  Va.,  then  under  the  presidency  of  the  famous 
surgeon,  Dr.  Hunter  McGuire,  from  which  I  was  graduated 
April  26,  1900.  With  the  exception  of  eighteen  months  spent 
in  private  practice  at  Ashland,  Ky.,  I  have  been  first  assistant 
physician  and  surgeon  to  the  employees  of  the  Davis  Coal  and 
Coke  Co.,  at  Thomas,  West  Va.,  ever  since.  In  1906  became 
one  of  the  surgeons  of  the  Western  Maryland  R.  R. ;  and  hold 
the  position  of  examiner  of  several  of  the  great  life  insurance 
companies.  Member  of  several  medical  societies  and  several 
historical  societies — The  Virginia  Historical  Society,  The  West 
Virginia  Historical  Society,  The  Filson  Club,  Louisville  Ky.,  etc. 
I  am  a  Phi  Chi,  Mason,  Democrat  and  Southern  Methodist.  As 
a  recreation  and  relaxation  from  my  medical  work,  I  indulge 
in  a  "hobby"  of  the  local  history  and  genealogy  of  the  Virginias 
and  Kentucky;  but  hold  that  no  man  of  breeding  will  bore  his 
friends  by  "riding  his  hobby'  publically,  except  among  kindred 
spirits,  or  upon  rare  occasions  in  self-defense. 

June  3,  1902,  I  was  married  at  Ashland,  Ky.,  to  Pamelia  Dorcas 
Hampton,    only    daughter    of    Rev.    John    Waring,    and    Louise 


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Virginia  (Ireland)  Hampton.  She  was  educated  at  the  Texas 
Polytechnic  College  and  Randolph  Macon  Woman's  College,  at 
Lynchburg.  She  has  a  great  deal  of  talent  for  music  and  has  had 
especial  training  in  piano  and  voice  culture.  Is  an  excellent 
conversationalist,  witty  and  quick  at  repartee.  We  have  three 
sons:  Henderson  Hampton,  and  Ireland  Fielding  (twins),  in 
1903  ;  and  John  Hampton  in   1906. 

Hampton  Excursus. 

John  Waring  Hampton,  born  May  16,  1842,  died  Jan.  19,  1912,  son  of 
William  and  Sarah  Buchanan  Hampton  of  "Hampton,"  Boyd  Co.,  Ky.,  was 
a  student  at  Emory  and  Herry  College,  Va.,  at  the  beginning  of  the  war. 
He  left  college  and  entered  the  8th  Va.  Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.,  served  two  years 
and  was  transferred  to  Gen.  Wm.  Jackson's  Brigade  of  Horse  Artillery 
for  eighteen  months;  was  in  a  number  of  important  engagements,  includ- 
ing Gettysburg;  and  while  swabbing  a  gun  at  North  Mountain  Depot  on 
the  B.  &  O.,  July  3rd,  1863,  was  shot  through  the  head,  the  bullet  entering 
in  front  of  one  ear  and  emerging  in  a  similar  position  on  the  other  side. 
He  was  nursed  back  to  life  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Buckles  of  Berkeley  County, 
and  returned  to  his  command.  After  the  war  he  was  graduated  in  March, 
1867,  from  the  law  department  of  the  University  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  en- 
tered upon  the  practice  of  law  in  his  home  county  as  the  partner  of  Judge 
William  Crutcher  Ireland.  In  1884  he  became  a  member  of  the  Southern 
Methodist  Church,  and  feeling  a  call  to  the  ministry,  gave  up  a  large  law 
practice  and  entered  the  active  ministry  in  1885.  From  this  time  until  1902 
he  filled  many  of  the  best  appointments  in  Texas  and  West  Virginia,  such 
«s  Fort  Worth,  Charleston,  Huntington,  Ashland,  Ky.  In  1902,  owing  to 
the  health  of  Mrs.  Hampton,  he  retired  from  active  work,  returned  to  the 
old  home  at  Ashland,  and  resumed  that  part  of  his  law  practice  which  had 
to  do  with  the  settling  of  estates,  etc.,  and  the  conducting  of  the  Boyd 
County  Abstract  Office,  which  he  owned.  July  4,  1871,  he  married  Louise 
Virginia  Ireland,  born  May  4,  1849,  died  April  7,  191 1,  at  Ashland,  eldest 
daughter  of  Judge  Wm.  C.  and  Pamelia  D.  Robb  Ireland.  She  was  gradu- 
ated from  Rose  Ridge  Seminary  in  1869,  and  in  the  words  of  a  friend  of  a 
lifetime — Judge  John  F.  Hager:  "She  was  a  woman  of  rare  accomplish- 
ments, whose  entire  life  was  embellished  by  the  refinements  and  graces  of 
a  sweet  and  abiding  religious  faith.  From  early  girlhood  to  her  last  vital 
breath,  her  life  was  characterized  by  simple  faith  and  the  good  works  of  a 
consecrated  Christian.  With  culture  and  accomplishments  of  the  highest 
order,  and  with  a  modesty  born  of  a  nature  exquisitely  sensitive,  she  im- 
pressed all  with  her  gentleness  of  spirit  and  the  simplicity  of  abiding  faith 
in  her  Lord  and  in  love  of  her  kind.    She  passed  from  death  to  life  eternal 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  195 

from  the  old  home  of  her  honored  father  and  mother  in  which  she  spent 
a  happy  girlhood,  and  from  whence  she  passed  a  lovely  bride."  Mrs. 
Hampton  organized  the  first  Foreign  Missionary  Society  in  the  Western 
Virginia  Conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  South,  and  was  an  active  worker 
in  all  departments  of  her  church. 

"Rev.  John  W.  Hampton  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  talent,  having 
been  far  above  the  medium  both  in  the  ministry  and  in  the  law  as  a  prac- 
titioner, having  been  a  law  partner  of  Judge  W.  C.  Ireland  when  the  firm 
was  regarded  as  one  of  the  strongest  in  Eastern  Kentucky.  His  person- 
ality was  that  of  the  real,  polished  gentleman,  and  he  was  greatly  esteemed 
by  all  who  knew  him,  being  ever  recognized  as  a  sincere  and  dignified 
man  who  was  honored  and  implicitly  trusted  by  all  good  people." 

"It  can  be  truly  said  of  him  that  he  ministered  unto  men.  There  are 
many  preachers.  There  are  fewer  ministers.  In  the  truest  and  most 
abundant  and  beautiful  meaning  of  the  word,  Rev.  John  W-  Hampton 
was  a  minister.  A  man  among  men,  ministering  unto  the  hungry  and 
thirsty  soul.  Such  he  would  have  been  regardless  of  craft  or  calling.  Had 
he  remained  a  lawyer,  as  was  his  original  intention,  his  life  would  no 
doubt  still  have  been  a  continual  ministration  to  the  people  about  him. 
It  is  doubtful  if  any  personality  has  ever  left  upon  this  city  or  upon  this 
county  a  more  golden  impress  than  did  Rev.  John  W.  Hampton.  His 
name  is  linked  with  some  of  the  really  epochal  chapters  of  Ashland's  his- 
tory, but  more  than  this  his  memory  is  a  living  presence  in  the  hearts  of 
hundreds  of  her  men  and  women.  He  thought  in  sympathy  with  the  needs 
of  the  time.  He  knew  more  of  men  than  he  did  of  theology,  and  cared 
more- 

"  T  like  a  church,  I  like  a  coul, 
I  like  a  church,  I  like  a  soul,' 

said  Emerson,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Hampton  was  truly  a  prophet  of  the  soul. 
That  is  why  he  touched  all  men,  regardless  of  their  creed  or  lack  of  creed. 
His  death  is  a  source  of  grief  throughout  this  section,  but  his  life  is 
cause  for  even  greater  gratitude.  In  his  seventy  years  he  not  only  warmed 
both  hands  before  the  fire  of  life,  but  he  warmed  the  spirits  of  others  as 
well,  and  the  service  he  rendered  his  time  will  remain  a  force  for  good 
and  happiness  long  after  the  churches  he  filled  have  crumbled." 

"All  that  was  mortal  of  this  good  man  was  carried  to  Ashland's  beau- 
tiful City  of  the  Dead  as  the  sun  was  red'ning  the  west  at  the  close  of  a 
beautiful  winter  day,  and  laid  to  rest  beside  his  wife  who  preceded  him 
to  the  Spirit  Land,  and  since  whose  death  he  has  never  been  quite  the 
same. 


196       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

"  'Sunset  and  evening  star, 

And  one  clear  call  for  me ! 
And  may  there  be  no  moaning  of  the  bar 
When  I  put  out  to  sea,' 

"Only  two  children  survive  him,  and  both  were  with  him  when  the 
final  summons  came,  Mrs.  Pamelia  Miller  of  West  Virginia,  and  Ireland 
Hampton  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  The  honorary  ball  bearers  were:  Capt. 
J.  M.  Furguson  (under  whom  he  fought  in  '61,  Mr.  Warfield  Lee,  Col. 
Douglas  Putnum,  Dr.  J.  M.  Martin,  Judge  J.  F.  Hager  (his  former  part- 
ner), and  Judge  G.  C.  Kinner;  active  pall-bearers  were  Judge  J.  J.  Mon- 
tague, Capt.  Wm.  Kouns,  Judge  P.  K.  Malin,  Mr.  Charles  Russell,  Mr. 
Harold  Means,  and  Mr.  M.  W.  Thomas." 

The  above  extracts  are  from  lengthy  notices  in  the  daily  papers*  of 
Ashland  and  Catletsburg,  Ky. 

To  return  to  the  lineage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hampton,  which  has  been 
prominent  in  Eastern  Kentucky  since  early  pioneer  days.  Mrs.  Hampton 
was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Judge  William  Crutcher  Ireland,  born  Nov. 
28,  1823,  in  Mason  Co.,  Ky.,  died  Feb.  21.  1894,  at  Ashland,  Ky..  eldest 
son  of  Capt.  Samuel  D.  Ireland  and  his  wife  Sarah,  daughter  of  Matthew 
Crutcher  of  Mason  County.  Capt  .Ireland,  born  Aug.  1,  1798,  in  the  old 
block  house  at  Washington,  Mason  County,  Ky.,  son  of  James  Ireland  a 
pioneer  settler  in  Mason  County  from  Pennsylvania,  Indian  fighter  under 
General  Wilkinson,  and  nephew  of  Rev.  James  Ireland,  an  early  Baptist 
minister  in  colonial  Virginia,  was  an  early  steamboatman  on  the  Ohio, 
owning  and  running  the  steamer  "Emigrant"  in  1826,  and  in  the  next 
twenty  years,  the  ''New  Emigrant."  "Cuba,"  and  "Hunter."  In  1845  he 
returned  to  his  farm  near  Maysville,  in  Lewis  County,  where  he  died  in 
1861.  Sarah  Crutcher  Ireland,  born  in  1800,  was  the  daughter  of  Matthew 
O  utchcr,  who  came  to  Kentucky  from  the  Rappahannock  section  of  Vir- 
ginia. Judge  Wm.  C.  Ireland  rec'd  an  excellent  education  and  was  ad- 
riitted  to  the  bar  in  Lewis  County  in  1848,  and  in  1852  removed  to 
Greenup  County,  and  soon  had  one  of  the  largest  law  practices  in  five 
neighboring  counties.  In  1859  he  was  elected  to  the  Kentucky  Legisla- 
ture, serving  until  1863,  being  a  strong  Union  man,  he  was  active  in  his 
opposition  to  both  Secessionists  and  Abolitionists.  i863-'6s  he  was  chief 
derk  of  the  State  Senate,  and  in  1874  the  Democratic  party,  of  which  he 
was  an  active  member,  elected  him  judge  of  the  16th  Kentucky  Judicial 
District.  July  4,  1848,  he  married  Pamelia  Docas  Robb,  born  March  23, 
1828,  died  August  1,  1905,  daughter  of  Joseph  Robb  and  his  second  wife 
Dorcas  Fee,  whose  mother,  a  Miss  Curran,  is  said  to  have  been  a  first 
cousin  and  sweetheart  of  the  great  Irish  Orator,  Philpot  Curran,  their 
marriage  having  been  opposed  by  her  father  on  account  of  relationship,  he 


William  Hampton,  (1808-1887), 

Boyd  County.   Kentucky. 
Mrs.  William  Hampton,  (1807-1874), 

nee  Sarah  Buchanan. 
Hampton  House,  1830,   Boyd  County,  Kentucky. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  197 

removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  his  daughter  married  James  Fee.  Joseph 
Robb,  was  of  Virgina  parentage,  and  for  forty-seven  years  was  the  clerk 
of  Lewis  County. 

William  Hampton  (father  of  Rev.  John  Waring  Hampton),  born  in 
1808  in  Cabell  County,  Va.,  died  July  25,  1887,  at  Catletsburg,  Ky.,  third 
son  of  William  and  Malinda  Shortridge  Hampton,  was  a  large  land  owner 
in  Kentucky  and  his  old-time  brick  house,  yet  standing  on  the  banks  of  the 
Big  Sandy  near  Catletsburg,  was  built  on  a  big  scale,  as,  for  example,  the 
dining  room  is  thirty  feet  long  by  twenty  wide.  August  31,  1828,  he  mar- 
ried Sarah  Buchanan,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Caldwell  Buch- 
anan of  Lawrence  Co.,  Ky.  Wm.  Buchanan,  born  in  Lancaster  Co.,  Pa.. 
is  said  to  have  been  closely  related  to  President  Buchanan ;  in  early  life 
he  removed  to  Woodford  Co.,  Ky.,  a  few  years  later  to  Montgomery  Co., 
and  finally  to  a  large  farm  on  the  Big  Sandy  in  Lawrence  County,  where 
he  died  at  the  age  of  ninety.  Sarah  B.  Hampton,  born  Nov.  6,  1807,  died 
April  20,  1874.  Original  portraits  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hampton  are  owned 
by  their  granddaughter,  Mrs.  J.  L.  Miller.  They  had  issue:  George  Short- 
ridge, Wm.  Oliver,  Joseph  N.,  Charles  H.,  John  Waring,  Wade,  and 
Frances.  William  Hampton,  Sr.,  born  in  Prince  William  County  in  1779, 
died  on  his  farm  in  Cabell  Co.,  Va.,  in  Nov-,  1819,  eldest  son  of  JDr. 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  Pluncket  Hampton,  married  Malinda  Shortridge  in 
the  winter  of  1803,  and  had  issue:  Wade,  George  Shortridge,  William, 
Dr.  Henry.  Levi,  Eliza,  Eli,  and  Louisa.  Malinda  Hampton  was  the 
daughter  of  Col.  George  Shortridge,  who  married  Margaret  Muir  in  1778 
in  Fairfax  County,  Virginia,  and  removed  to  Harrodsburg,  Ky.,  the  next 
year.  In  1802  they  removed  to  a  farm  on  the  Kentucky  side  of  Big  Sandy 
opposite  that  of  their  future  son-in-law,  Wm.  Hampton,  Jr.  They  were 
the  parents  of  Judge  Eli  Shortridge,  a  prominent  jurist  in  Alabama  in 
early  times,  and  ancestors  of  Gov.  John  Shortridge  of  North  Dakota- 
Col.  George  Shortridge  (colonel  of  militia),  son  of  John  Shortridge  of 
Fairfax  Co.,  Va.,  is  said  to  have  served  in  the  Revolution  and  later  against 
the  Indians  in  Kentucky.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Karon- 
happuch  Muir  of  Fairfax,  and  had  brothers,  James,  John,  George,  and 
Robert,  and  sister  Elizabeth. 

Dr.  Henry  Hampton  (father  of  Wm.  Hampton,  Sr.,  of  Cabell),  born 
at  "Buckland,"  Prince  William  County,  Va-,  in  1750,  died  in  July,  1834, 
in  the  summer  house  in  the  garden  of  his  son,  Dr.  Anthony  Hampton,  on 
the  Virginia  side  of  the  Big  Sandy,  was  the  second  son  of  Henry  Hamp- 
ton, Sr.,  of  "Buckland."  Dr.  Henry  Hampton  was  a  surgeon  or  surgeon's 
mate  in  the  Revolution  from  Virginia  (positive  tradition  among  all  de- 
scendants), and  a  few  years  ago  Judge  Wm.  J.  Hampton,  Ashland,  Ky., 
saw  Dr.  Henry's  original  discharge  from  the  army  among  his  father's 
papers,  which  has  since  disappeared — probably  destroyed  with  what  was 


198       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

thought  to  be  worthless  papers.  The  official  records  of  the  Revolution  at 
Richmond  and  Washington  contain  no  record  of  service  of  Dr.  Henry 
Hampton,  but  do  of  a  Cary  Henry  Hampton,  who  was  a  surgeon's  mate 
from  Virginia.  None  of  the  records  in  Virginia  of  the  Hamptons  show 
any  Cary  H.  Hampton.  Traditions  in  the  different  branches  of  the  family 
say  that  Dr.  Henry's  mother  was  a  Miss  Preston  or  a  Miss  Cary,  but  no 
proof  of  either,  except  the  use  of  the  name  Preston,  by  descendants.  After 
the  Revolution  Dr.  Hampton  practiced  medicine  in  Prince  William  and 
Fauquier  until  1800,  when  he  removed  to  Cabell  County,  where  he  owned 
a  great  deal  of  land  inherited  from  his  father.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Plunkett  in  lyyy-yS,  and  had  issue:  William,  Dr.  Anthony,  Henry,  Jr., 
Richard  Wade,  and  Ellen. 

Henry  Hampton,  Sr.,  of  "Buckland,"  Prince  William  County,  born 
circa,  1720,  died  in  March,  1778,  was  the  third  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
Wade  Hampton  of  Fairfax  County,  and  brother  of  Anthony  Hampton, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Preston  and  removed  to  South  Carolina,  where 
they  were  killed  by  the  Indians  in  1774;  they  were  the  parents  of  the  dis- 
tinguished Col.  Wade  Hampton,  Maj.  Henry  Hampton,  Col.  Richard 
Hampton,  Capt.  Edward  Hampton,  and  Preston  Hampton,  officers  in  the 
Revolution  from  South  Carolina.  Henry  Hampton  of  "Buckland"  was 
married  twice,  but  we  have  only  tradition  for  the  name  of  the  first  wife, 
who  was  the  mother  of  his  children — that  she  was  either  a  Miss  Preston 
(her  grandson,  Dr.  Anthony  Hampton  of  Cabell,  named  his  eldest  son 
Preston)  or  a  Miss  Cary,  the  second  wife  was  Mrs.  Eleanor  Garner, 
widow  of  John  Garner  of  Fauquier.  He  left  about  1,500  acres  of  land  in 
Prince  William,  and  800  in  Cabell  County  on  the  Ohio,  and  £3,576  of  per- 
sonal property,  including  seventeen  negroes,  to  his  sons,  William  of  "Rock 
Hill,"  Fauquier,  Dr.  Henry,  and  daughters  Mrs.  George  Newman  Brown, 
and  Mrs.  Thomas  Brewer. 

John  Hampton,  Sr.,  of  Truro  Parish,  Fairfax  County,  son  of  a  John 
Hampton  of  King  William  County,  born  about  1690,  died  about  January, 
1748  (his  will,  probated  March  31,  1748),  married  about  1710-11  Margaret 
Wade,  born  May  1,  1694,  died  in  May,  1773,  daughter  of  James  Wade  of 
New  Kent,  and  sister  of  Anthony,  Henry,  James,  Mary  and  Sarah  Wade. 
It  was  from  this  marriage  that  the  names  of  Anthony,  Henry,  and  Wade 
entered  the  Hampton  family  of  Virginia,  Kentucky,  and  South  Carolina. 
Owing  to  the  destruction  of  the  records  of  the  counties  in  Virginia,  where 
the  Hamptons  were  originally  settled,  the  line  can  not  be  traced  unbroken 
further  back ;  but  from  the  few  fragments  of  data  obtainable,  it  is  thought 
that,  John  Hampton  of  King  William  was  a  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hamp- 
ton, Jr.,  of  James  City  County,  and  grandson  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hampton, 
Sr.,  who  was  graduated  from  Corpus  Christi  College,  Oxford,  Jan.  30, 
1627,  and  was  the  minister  at  Jamestown  in  1629,  and  died  in  York  County 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  199 

in   1648.     For  extensive  history  of  the  Hampton   family   see  the   Times- 
Dispatch  for  November  26th,  Dec.  3rd,  and  Dec  10th,  191 1. 

Stephen  Kisling  Miller,  youngest  son  of  Henderson  and 
Finetta  Anne  Lyons  Miller,  was  born  at  Beech  Hill,  Mason 
county,  March  9,  1880,  and  educated  in  the  neighboring  schools. 
He  inherited  the  homeplace  at  "Beech  Hill"  and  continued  there 
until  1903,  when  he  became  an  agent  of  the  International  Har- 
vester Company  in  its  southern  Ohio  territory.  He  has  a  great 
natural  talent  for  mechanics  and  all  his  life  made  especial  study 
of  machinery.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  the  place  of  manager  of 
their  southern  Ohio  branch ;  and  in  Feb.,  1906,  received  an  in- 
crease in  salary  and  a  handsome  gold  watch  and  a  purse  con- 
taining a  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  in  gold  as  an  appreciation  of 
his  work.  About  a  year  later  he  became  the  general  manager 
of  the  American  Seeding  Machine  Co.  in  Virginia,  and  after  a 
year  in  this  State  they  placed  him  in  charge  of  a  third  of  their 
territory  in  Michigan,  and  in  191 1  gave  him  charge  of  their 
business  in  the  entire  State.  He  is  an  indefatigable  worker,  and 
has  a  personality  that  makes  him  a  host  of  firm  friends  where- 
ever  he  goes.  Jan.  4,  1904,  he  was  married  at  Parkersburg, 
W.  Va.,  to  Fay  Curtis,  the  accomplished  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Preston  Gilmore  Curtis.  Mr.  Curtis  is  connected  with  a 
large  railroad  construction  company,  which  has  built  some  of  the 
largest  railroad  bridges  and  tunnels  in  this  country.  For  several 
years. has  been  living  at  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Stephen  K.  and  Fay  C.  Miller  have  issue:  Hugh  Curtis, 
born  Julv  5,  1907;  Nancy  Catharine,  born  June  15,  1910,  and 
Jean  Anne  Preston,  born  March  4,  1912. 

Curtis  Excursus. 

Nancy  Fay  Curtis,  born  at  Little  Hocking,  Ohio  ,Feb.  6,  1883,  is  the 
daughter  of  Preston  Gilmore  Curtis,  born  Jan.  24,  1857,  and  his  wife  Nan- 
nie Viola  Dunfee,  born  Aug.  28,  1858.  at  Coolville,  Ohio.  P.  G.  Curtis  was 
the  son  of  Columbus  B.  and  Anne  King  Curtis  of  Little  Hocking.  Colum- 
bus Curtis  was  the  son  of  Horace  Curtis,  and  Anne  King  Curtis  was  the 
daughter  of  Jacob  King,  born  July  22,  1799,  Westmoreland  County,  Pa-, 
near  Props'  Furnace,  and  his  wife  Mary  Covert,  who  were  married  at 
Pittsburg,  Nov.  7,   1826. 


200       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Mrs.  Nannie  Dunfee  Curtis  was  the  daughter  of  George  B.  Dunfee, 
born  Sept.  4,  1816,  at  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  and  his  wife  Nancy  Tipton,  born 
Aug.  4,  1816,  at  Unionport,  Ohio,  whose  mother  was  Nancy  Waldron,  a 
descendant  of  Resolve  Waldron,  one  of  the  old  Dutch  Patroons  of  New 
York,  and  original  owner  of  immense  tracts  of  land  where  Harlem  now 
stands.  From  his  great  wealth  he  was  sometimes  called  "Lord"  Waldron, 
but  the  title  is  said  to  have  been  one  "more  of  fancy  than  fact." 

58.  Patsy  Jelf,  born  in  1824,  died  in  1895,  married  Oct.,  1844, 
James  Lyons,  of  Mercer  county,  son  of  Stephen  Lyons.  They  had 
issue :  Eliza,  Franklin,  Thomas,  Sarah,  Allen,  Anne  and  Harp ; 
all  died  unmarried  except  the  last  two,  who  married  brothers  by 
the  name  of  Holburn. 

59.  Susannah  Jelf,  fourth  daughter  of  James  and  Susannah 
Jelf,  married  Richard  Lancaster,  of  Woodford  county,  and  had 
issue :  Susannah,  Roberta,  Anne,  married  Boone  Salee  of  an 
old  Huguenot  family ;  Susan,  married  Perry  White  and  had  son 
William ;  Eliza,  married  James  Smith ;  Mary  Lee,  married  a 
Mr.  Foley;  James,  married  Ella  Doty  and  has  son  William; 
Merritt,  married  Jane  Rice ;  Fletcher,  married  Eliza  Self ;  Ben- 
jamin Fielding,  married  Ella  Mitchell. 

60.  Thomas  Jelf,  born  Feb.  28,  183 1,  died  Jan.  10,  1910,  at 
the  home  where  he  was  born  eighty-two  years  before.  In  1854 
he  married  Eliza  Anne  White  and  had  issue :  Willis,  Nettie 
Lee,  Sarah  Jane  and  Lucy  Anne — all  of  whom  died  unmarried ; 
Robert  J.,  Allen,  John,  Lewis  and  Elizabeth.  Robert  J.  Jelf 
married  his  first  cousin,  Eliza  Jelf,  and  has  a  son,  Wayne,  now 
a  private  in  the  United  States  engineers  in  the  Philippines.  Allen 
Jelf  married  Lucy  Strange  and  has  issue :  Cora,  Owens,  Bessie, 
Charles  and  Foster.  He  owns  the  old  Lilliard  place  near  Mor- 
tonsville,  Woodford  county,  Ky.,  and  is  considered  one  of  the 
best  farmers  of  his  county.  John  Jelf  married  Lillie  Eaves 
and  has  eight  children.  Lewis  Jelf,  died  Jan.  6,  1910,  at  the  age  of 
thirty-nine,  leaving  issue :  Lillian,  Ethel,  Anne,  Ella,  Henry 
and  Elizabeth. 

Of  Thomas  Jelf  and  his  wife  the  Versailles  papers  contained 
the  following  notices : 


Stephen  Kislixg  Miller, 

Mrs.    Stephen-   Kislixg   Miller    (nee   Fay  Curtiss). 

Hugh  Curtiss  Miller  and  Nancy  Catharine  Miller. 

Nancy   C.   Miller. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  201 

'The  shock  of  his  son  Lewis'  death  was  more  than  Thomas 
Jelf,  in  his  enfeebled  condition  from  old  age,  could  withstand, 
and  on  Monday  the  10th  instant,  he  passed  away.  (Jan.  10, 
1910.)  Mr.  Jelf  was  eighty-two  years  of  age.  He  was  one  of 
the  oldest  farmers  in  the  country  and  an  honorable  and  highly 
respected  man.  His  wife,  who  survives  him,  has  been  an  in- 
valid and  bedridden  for  several  years  and  is  now  in  a  very 
serious  condition.  He  leaves  a  brother,  Benjamin  Jelf,  and  a 
sister,  Aliss  Sallie  Jelf,  of  Mortonsville.  Universal  sympathy 
is  felt  for  this  sorely  afflicted  family,  and  particularly  for  the 
aged  mother  and  the  surviving  son,  Allen  Jelf,  who  is  ill  and  con- 
fined to  his  bed  with  fever  and  was  unable  to  attend  the  funeral 
of  either  his  brother  or  his  father.  Funeral  services  over  the 
body  of  Lewis  Jelf  were  held  at  the  Mt.  Edwin  Methodist  Church, 
Saturday  afternoon  at  2  o'clock.  The  funeral  of  Thomas  Jelf 
took  place  at  the  residence  Tuesday  afternoon,  the  services  being 
conducted  by  Rev.  J.  W.  Crates,  of  Versailles.  Both  the  bodies 
were  interred  in  the  family  burying  ground  near  the  old  home.'' 

"Mrs.  Eliza  Anne  Jelf,  aged  seventy  years,  widow  of  the  late 
Mr.  Thomas  Jelf,  died  Saturday  morning  at  6  o'clock  at  the 
home  of  her  daughter-in-law,  Mrs.  Josie  Jelf,  near  Nonesuch. 
Mrs.  Jelf  was  a  great  sufferer,  having  been  confined  to  her  bed 
with  rheumatism  for  the  past  three  years,  though  her  death  was 
hastened  by  the  shock  of  the  sudden  death  of  her  son,  Lewis 
Jelf,  followed  in  three  days  by  the  death  of  her  husband,  both 
occuring  in  the  past  two  months.  Mrs.  Jelf's  entire  life  was 
spent  in  the  southern  part  of  this  county.  She  was  a  life-long 
member  of  Mt.  Edwin  Methodist  Church  and  an  exemplary 
Christian  woman.  Two  children  survive  her — a  son,  Allen  Jelf, 
of  Pinckard,  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Day,  of  Lexington. 
Funeral  services  at  Mt.  Edwin,  Sunday  afternoon  at  2  o'clock. 
Interment  in  the  family  burying  ground." 

65.  Eliza  Jane  Jelf,  born  May  13,  1841,  married  at  the  age 
of  thirteen,  in  Oct.,  1854,  and  died  Dec.  5,  1855,  after  the  birth 
of  her  son,  David  Allen  Wilson,  who  married  Mary  Jane  Hackney 
and  has  sons,  Claud,  James,  and  Joseph. 


202       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

66.  Clemency  Harp  Jelf,  married  Feb.  21,  1867,  Robert  A. 
White,  of  Louisville,  and  had  issue:  James  B.,  and  Granville 
Clackner  White. 

28.  James  Davis,  born  April  17,  1804,  married  Eliza  Jeffres 
and  moved  to  Indiana.    No  other  data. 

29.  Diana  Dale  Davis,  born  June  7,  1806,  died  in  1825,  four 
years  after  she  married  Frederick  DeMoss,  who  owned  a  large 
farm  on  the  Kentucky  River.  She  left  issue,  William  and  Susan, 
who  were  taken  to  Missouri  by  their  father  about  1835,  where 
Susan  married  Joseph  Holt,  of  Clinton  county. 

31.  Sallie  Stevens  Davis,  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Susannah  Hyatt  Davis,  married  William  Howard,  a  wealthy 
Woodford  farmer,  and  had  issue :  Anne,  married  Thomas  White ; 
William,  married  a  Miss  Hutcheson  and  removed  to  Missouri. 

Carters  of  Orange  County,  Virginia, 

and 

Simpson  County,  Kentucky. 

After  this  lengthy  account  of  the  Davis  descendants  of  Joseph 
and  Catharine  Stevens  Carter,  of  Spotsylvania,  will  give  such 
data  as  I  have  been  able  to  secure  relative  to  their  other  de- 
scendants. Regret  that  I  have  not  been  able  to  obtain  either  from 
the  public  records  or  the  descendants  more  complete  data  of  them 
and  the  allied  families. 

4.  John  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Catharine  Carter, 
born  June  8,  1725,  died  in  Orange  county,  Va.,  after  1793.  After 
his  father's  will  in  1750  he  appears  next  in  the  Spotsylvania 
records,  Jan.  4,  1771,  when  his  mother  deeded  him  215  acres, 
where  his  father,  Joseph  Carter,  deceased,  had  lived.  April  24, 
1780,  Joseph  Rogers,  of  Culpeper,  sold  to  "John  Carter,  gent." 
of  Spotsylvania  an  improved  plantation  of  188  acres  in  Orange 
county.  Feb.  25,  1785,  John  Carter,  planter,  of  Orange,  pur- 
chased an  improved  plantation  of  455  acres  in  that  county  from 
Robert  Thomas.    March  25,  1785,  John  Carter  and  wife,  Susan- 


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John  Allen  Carter, 
Louisville,    Ky. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  203 

nah,  of  Orange,  sold  to  William  Coats,  165  acres  in  Spotsylvania, 
purchased  by  the  said  John  Carter's  father,  Joseph  Carter,  from 
Robert  Goodloe,  and  April  1  they  sold  sixty  acres  of  the  same 
tract  to  Meredith  Anderson.  Both  deeds  witnessed  by  Beverley 
and  William  Winslow,  said  to  have  been  cousins  of  the  Carters. 
April  13,  1787,  John  Carter,  of  Orange,  made  deed  of  gift  to 
son-in-law,  David  Lively,  of  Spotsylvania,  for  a  negro  servant. 
June  20,  1787,  John  and  Susannah  Carter  sold  to  Joseph  Bell 
thirteen  acres  of  their  home  plantation  in  Orange.  This  is  the 
last  appearance  of  Susannah  Carter's  signature  to  her  husband's 
deeds.  Feb.  21,  1791,  John  Carter  purchased  41  acres  adjoining  his 
home  place  from  Richard  Moore  Thomas,  of  Woodford  county, 
formerly  of  Orange.  This  deed  is  witnessed  by  John  Carter's  son 
and  daughter,  Joseph  and  Priscilla  Carter.  Jan.  28,  1793,  he  sold 
276  acres  of  his  home  place,  to  Roger  and  Henry  Bell,  and  on  same 
date  104  acres  to  Adam  Quisenberry.  April  22,  1793,  he  bought  of 
Joseph  and  Jane  May  an  improved  plantation  of  200  acres,  and 
does  not  appear  again  in  the  records  of  Orange  county. 

In  the  census  of  1782  he  was  the  head  of  a  family  of  sixteen 
whites  and  thirty  servants.  As  no  will  can  be  found  we  do  not 
know  the  names  of  all  of  his  children,  for  the  two  Bibles  in 
which  he  appears  give  only  his  birth  and  that  of  his  son  John. 
But  from  the  sources  given  it  is  shown  that  he  had  issue : 

68 ,daughter,  married  David  lively,  of  Spotsyl- 
vania. 

69.  Priscilla  Carter,  unmarried  in  1791. 

70.  Joseph  Carter,  sold  land  in  Orange  in  1815  and  1817 
formerly  owned  by  father,  John  Carter.     Had  wife  Polly. 

71.  Sarah  Carter   ( ?). 

J2.  John  Carter,  Jr.,  born  Sept.  21,  1757,  died  June  20,  1808, 
in  Spotsylvania. 

71.  Sarah  Carter.  About  1 770-1 771  Charles  Bell  and  Sarah 
Carter  were  m??ried  somewhere  in  Virginia,  and  in  1792  removed 
with  their  family  to  Mason  county,  Ky.,  when  their  youngest 
child  was  six  years  old.  They  had  issue:  Charles,  Jr.,  married 
Willia  Porter;  Carter,  married  Sarah  Wofford ;  Willis,  married 
Polly  Early ;  Thornton,  unmarried  ;  Elizabeth,  married  William 


204 


GEXEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


Summers ;  Lucy,  married  William  Prather,  and  Clarissa,  married 
Michael  Summers. 

From  the  fact  that  Joseph,  Roger  and  Henry  Bell  were  near 
neighbors  of  John  Carter  in  Orange  county,  it  is  thought  prob- 
ably that  Charles  Bell  was  a  son  of  one  of  them  and  Sarah  Carter, 
a  daughter  of  John  Carter,  Sr. 

72.  John  Carter,  Jr.,  married  Sept.  1,  1784,  in  Spotsylvania, 
Winifred  Allen  McAllister  (widow  of  Nathaniel  McAllister,  by 
whom  she  had  issue:  Nathaniel,  Jr.,  born  Oct.  12,  1774,  Eliza- 
beth, born  Dec.  11,  1776,  and  Rachel,  born  March  26,  1779).  Mrs. 
Winifred  Carter,  born  Nov.  12,  1756,  died  Aug.  13,  1831,  in 
Simpson  county,  Ky.,  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Allen,  of 
Spotsylvania.  About  a  year  after  the  death  of  her  second  hus- 
band Mrs.  Carter  moved  from  Spotsylvania  to  Simpson  county, 
Ky.,  where  she  purchased  a  fine  farm  of  six  hundred  acres,  which 
is  still  owned  by  her  descendants. 

The  old  Bible  of  John  Carter,  Jr.,  is  owned  by  his  great  grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  J.  Adger  Stewart,  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  gives  his 
children  as  follows : 

73.  Garland  Carter,  born  Dec.  15,  1785.  May  have  been 
the   maiden  name   of  John   Carter's   mother,   Susannah   Carte/. 

74.  Allen  Carter,  born  Dec.  15,  1787,  died  Feb.  15,  1816,  un- 
married. 

75.  Nancy  Carter,  born  Jan.  14,  1791,  died  June  26,  1792,  in 
Virginia. 

76.  Sophronia  Carter,  born  Sept.  14,  1795,  died  Nov.  2,  1812, 
unmarried. 

"/"j.  Caswell  Carter,  born  July  7,  1798,  died  May  28,  1883. 

yy.  Caswell  Carter,  the  only  child  of  John  and  Winifred 
Carter,  who  married  took  as  his  wife,  Nov.  15,  1821,  Lavinia 
Jones,  born  Feb.  10,  1802,  died  May  14,  1886,  daughter  of  Allen 
Jones,  Sr.,  and  his  wife,  Jane  McClanahan,  of  Simpson  county. 
Mrs.  Allen  Jones  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  McClanahan  and 
his  wife,  Nancy  Green,  and  granddaughter  of  Rev.  William  Mc- 
Clanahan and  his  wife,  Mary  Marshall,  of  Westmoreland  county, 
Va. 


Caswell   Carter.    Esq. 
Simpson  County,  Ky. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  205 

Caswell  and  Lavinia  Carter  had  issue : 

I.  John  Allen   Carter,   born  Aug.   22,    1822,   died  March   16, 
1894. 

II.  Winifred  Jane  Carter,  born  Jan.  26,  1824,  died  April  30, 

1843. 

III.  James   Garland   Carter,  born   Nov.   25,    1825,   died   Dec. 

30,  1889. 

IV.  Mary  A.   E.    Carter,   born   Jan.   23,    1828,   died   Dec.    12, 

1904. 

V.  Louise  Mitchem  Carter,  born  May  9,   1829,  died  Oct.   8, 

1882. 

VI.  Virginia  Emmiline  Carter,  born  Aug.  26,  1831,  died  June 

3°.  l833- 

VII.  Jefferson  Caswell  Carter,  born  Feb.  28,  1833.    Living. 

VIII.  Nancy  Caroline  Carter,  born  Jan  20,  1835,  died  Sept. 
1,  1883. 

IX.  Bernilla  Frances  Carter,  born  July  27,  1838,  died  Oct. 
8,  1882. 

X.  William  Harrison  Carter,  born  Sept.   10,   1841,  died  July 

21,   1854. 

XL  Benjamin  Franklin  Carter,  born  Nov.  8,  1843.     Living. 

1.  John  Allen  Carter,  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  for  nearly  half  a  century,  was  associated  with 
his  brother,  James  Garland  Carter,  as  owner  of  one  of  the 
largest  dry  goods  stores  in  the  city.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
L.  &  N.  R.  R.,  the  Fidelity  Trust  Co.,  Bank  of  Kentucky,  and 
many  other  institutions ;  trustee  of  the  Institution  for  the  Blind 
and  of  Cave  Hill  Cemetery.  Mr.  Carter  was  a  prominent  lay- 
man in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  and  established  a 
scholarship  at  Vanderbilt  University.  Jan.  28,  1852,  he  married 
Albana  Caroline  Carson,  daughter  of  Thomas  D.  and  Caroline 
Hines  Carson,  of  Butler  county,  Ky.    They  had  issue : 

(1).  Caroline  Sophronia  Carter,  born  July  25,  1853,  died  April 
12,   1909. 

(2).  Levina  Carter,  born  March  1,  1857,  died  March  6,  1877. 

(3).  Robert  Allen  Carter,  born  Feb.  23,  1867,  died  Aug.  6, 
1887. 


206  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

(4).  Anna  Briggs  Carter,  born  July  15,  1875. 

(1).  Caroline  S.  Carter,  was  married  on  April  26,  1876,  to 
Dr.  Charles  S.  Briggs,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  one  of  the  greatest 
surgeons  of  the  South,  whose  name  will  live  always  in  the  annals 
of  the  great  surgeons  of  America.    They  had  issue  three  children  : 

a.  Elsie  M.  Briggs,  born  Jan.  31,  1877,  married  Francis  Mc- 
Keldin  Gettys,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  He  is  cashier  of  the  Union 
National  Bank,  president  of  the  American  Clothing  Co.,  and  in 
1 907- 1 908  was  president  of  the  National  Credit  Men's  Associa- 
tion. Mr.  Gettys  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Tennessee, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  S.  A.  E.  Fraternity,  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  the  Pendennis  Club,  the  Louisville  Country 
Club,  etc.     They  have  two  daughters — Caroline  Carter  and  Eliza. 

b.  Binnie  Briggs,  born  May  25,  1879,  married  Robert  Lusk, 
a  prominent  attorney  and  clubman  of  Nashville,  graduate  of 
Yale,  etc.  They  have  two  daughters — Caroline  Carter  and  Eliza- 
beth Fairfax  Lusk. 

c.  William  Thompson  Briggs,  born  Aug.  19,  1881.  He  grad- 
uated at  Yale  in  1905  and  Vanderbilt  Medical  in  1909.  Married 
Artemisia  Barrow,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  April  26,   191 1. 

(4).  Anna  Briggs  Carter,  married  on  April  26,  1899,  J. 
Adger  Stewart,  a  prominent  business  man  and  manufacturer  of 
Louisville.  Mr.  Stewart  is  a  member  of  the  Pendennis  Club. 
Louisville  Country  Club,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  So- 
ciety of  Colonial  Wars,  Society  of  Cincinnati  in  Virginia,  Les 
Cheneaux  Club,  Piedmont  Driving  Club,  S.  A.  E.  Fraternity. 
Virginia  Historical  Society,  South  Carolina  Historical  Society, 
etc.    They  have  issue : 

John  Carter,  J.  Adger,  Jr.,  J.  Alexander  and  Jean  Hollings- 
worth. 

III.  James  Garland  Carter,  born  Nov.  25,  1825,  was  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother,  John  Allen  Carter,  as  a  merchant  in  Louis- 
ville for  more  than  thirty  years.  He  was  a  director  in  the  Colum- 
bia Trust  Co.,  president  of  the  Union  Lime  and  Cement  Co.,  etc. 
He  was  married  two  times. 


Mrs.    Caswell   Carter, 
nee   Lavinia  Jones. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  207 

First  marriage,  Dec.  14,  1847,  to  America  James,  to  whom 
was  born: 

(5).  Edwin  Lucas  Carter,  born  Feb.  27,  1849,  cued  Oct.  11, 
1879.  He  married  Maria  Kendrick,  of  Louisville,  and  had  one 
son,  James  Lucas  Carter. 

(6).  Annette  Rose  Carter,  born  July  25,  1850,  married  first, 
June  9,  1871,  William  J.  Seward,  and  had  a  son,  William  Carter 
Seward ;  married  second,  Ambler  Bass,  of  Russellville,  Ky.,  Nov. 
18,  1879,  and  has  issue:  Edwin  Lucas,  Mary  Allen,  Russell 
Morton  and  Winnie  Louise. 

Second  marriage  on  June  6,  1855,  to  Melvilla  Brown,  to  whom 
was  born : 

(7).  James  Garland  Carter,  Jr.,  born  June  11,  1856.  He  mar- 
ried   and  has  a  son,  James  Garland  Carter,  III. 

(8).  Caswell  Brown  Carter,  born  April  14,  1858.  Died  Sept. 
4,  1864. 

(9).  Allen  Rogers  Carter,  was  born  Feb.  11,  1865.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  and  one  of  the  trustees  of  Vanderbilt  University,  presi- 
dent of  the  Herndon  Carter  Co.,  director  of  the  Carter  Dry  Goods 
Co.,  LJnion  Lime  &  Cement  Co.,  etc.  Married  Nora,  daughter  of 
Charles  Gheens,  April  3,  1894,  and  has  a  daughter,  Eleanor  Mel- 
villa Carter. 

(10).  Mellie  Emmett  Carter,  born  Dec.  6,  1871,  married  Nov. 
7,  1894,  John  Delawon  Otter,  and  has  a  daughter,  Melvilla  Wor- 
tham  Otter.  Mr.  Otter  is  vice-president  of  Otter  &  Co.,  director 
of  Louisville  Title  Co.,  Louisville  and  Kentucky  Insurance  Co., 
president  of  Board  of  Aldermen,  member  of  the  Louisville 
Legion,  Pendennis  Club,  Louisville  Country  Club,  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  Virginia  Historical  Society,  etc. 

IV.  Mary  A.  E.  Carter,  was  married  in  Simpson  county  to 
John  W.  Stanley,  a  wealthy  tobacco  planter  of  that  county,  on 
Aug.  12,  1846.  They  have  issue:  Jane,  Mary,  Lavinia,  Binnie, 
Wilbur,  Caswell  and  John. 

V.  Louise  Michem  Carter,  married  April  12,  1849,  Jonn  D. 
Jackson,  a  Simpson  county  planter  and  had  issue :  Lina  W. 
and  John  D.,  Jr. 


208       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

VII.  Jefferson  Caswell  Carter,  is  still  living  at  the  old 
Carter  place  in  Simpson  county.  He  was  married  Sept.  n,  i860, 
to  Lucy  Chestnutt  and  has  a  daughter,  Annabel,  who  married 
J.  B.  Brownlie,  of  Birmingham,  Ala. 

VIII.  Nancy  Caroline  Carter,  married  (1).  Sept.  4,  1855, 
Gabriel  F.  Taylor;  (2).  James  Wick  ware.  Issue  first  marriage: 
Mollie,  Winnie,  Lavinia,  Gabriel,  Fonntaine  and  twin  who  died 
in  infancy. 

IX.  Permilia  Frances  Carter,  married  (1).  June  17,  1856, 
Alexander  B.  McElwain;  (2),  John  W.  Crow.  Issue  first  mar- 
riage ;  William  and  John. 

XI.  Benjamin  Franklin  Carter,  a  Simpson  county  planter, 
was  married  Dec.  25,  1872,  to  Mary  M.  Dawson,  and  had  issue: 
Anna,  married  Charles  N.  Baird ;  Herbert,  married  Polly  Hay- 
don  ;  Binnie  Carter,  and  Elizabeth  Carter. 


Descendants  of  Daniel  Carter  of  Lancaster 

County 

Daniel  Carter,  third  son  of  Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  of 
"Barford,"  and  his  wife,  Arabella  Williamson,  was  born  in  1700 
and  died  in  1759  in  his  native  county.  He  owned  a  farm  of 
about  350  acres  and  eight  servants. 

He  seems  not  to  have  held  any  official  position  in  his  county 
and  parish,  and  appears  but  three  times  in  the  county  records. 
First,  May  17,  1725,  when  he  was  the  attorney  for  his  friend, 
Robert  Briscoe,  at  court;  second,  in  his  father's  will  in  1728, 
when  he  received  a  negro  woman  and  a  share  in  the  residency 
estate ;  and  last,  when  his  own  estate  was  appraised  and  divided 
between  his  wife  and  seven  of  his  nine  children.  One  son  had 
had  a  disagreement  with  his  father  and  left  home  and  was  lost 
sight  of  before  Daniel  Carter  died.  The  eldest  son  is  supposed 
to  have  had  his  portion  previously  to  his  father's  death,  so  did 
not  appear  in  the  division. 

We  are  indebted  to  a  grandson  of  Daniel  Carter  for  the  account 
of  the  Carter  family  in  the  Carter  MSS.  of  1858.  The  account 
given  of  his  branch  is  as  follows : 

"Grandfather  and  his  brothers,  Dale  and  Tom,  was  all  that 

staid  in  this  county Grandfather  Daniel  Carter  had 

a  good  plantation  of  about  350  acres  and  about  a  dozen  servants. 
He  died  in  1759  in  his  59th  year.  He  married  a  widow  who  was 
a  daughter  of  William  Pannill  of  Richmond  county ;  she  died  at 
the  age  of  81.  they  had  6  sons  and  3  daughters.  Wm.  Panil 
the  oldest,  John,  Thomas,  Robert,  Joseph,  and  Daniel  the  youngest 
was  my  father,  the  girls  was  aunt  Fanny  died  at  my  house  in 
1830  at  the  great  age  of  92.  Peggy  married  Wm.  Kent  and 
had  sons  Wm.,  John,  and  Dan'l.  and  daughters  Betsy,  Molly 
&  Fanny.  Mary  Elizh  married  a  Kirk  &  had  sons  James,  John, 
&William.  Uncle  William  lived  in  Pr.  William  county  &  died 
just  a  month  before  father  died  in  1794.  He  had  7  children,  Dan'l., 


2io       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Billy,  John,  Molly,  Sally,  Catharine,  &  Rachel  named  for  mother. 
Uncle  John  went  to  the  western  part  of  the  state  &  is  supposed 
to  have  been  killed  by  Indians.  Uncle  Joseph  &  uncle  Tom  after 
grandfather  died  moved  to  the  southern  counties  Mecklinburgh 
I  think,  &  then  later  on  to  Carolina,  they  had  big  families,  but 
I  don't  know  anything  of  them.  Robert  had  a  quarrel  with  his 
father  and  left  home  before  grandfather  died  &  was  never  heard 
of  again.  The  youngest  son  Daniel  was  my  father  &  your  grand- 
father. He  married  late  in  life  Rachel  Smith  &  died  Octo.  Ist 
1794  at  age  of  56.  Mother  died  Jan'y  10th.  1829  aged  78.  they 
had  three  sons  and  one  daughter  Betsy  who  never  married.  Your 
uncle  Ambrose  was  the  oldest  son  and  I  was  next  and  your  father 
Joseph  Carter  was  born  seven  months  after  father  died  as  you 
know.  I  am  now  79  years  old  &  reasonably  active  for  my  age. 
Father  and  all  his  brothers  fought  in  the  war  for  Independence 
and  I  was  in  Captn.  Sherman's  Company  in  the  last  war  with 
England."  In  speaking  of  another  branch  of  this  family  the 
author  of  the  MSS.  says  of  his  aunt,  Fanny  Carter,  daughter 
of  Daniel  Carter,  Sr. :  "Augustine  (son  of  Dale  Carter,  brother 
of  Daniel)  and  aunt  Fanny  was  engaged  to  be  married  but  she 
got  mad  one  time  when  he  danced  2  or  3  times  at  a  ball  with  a 
girl  she  didn't  like  and  told  him  he  could  marry  her  if  he  wanted 
to  for  she  wouldn't  have  him.  and  they  never  made  it  up  and 
neither  one  married.  He  died  in  this  county  during  the  last  war 
with  England."  He  made  his  will  Oct.  21,  181 1,  when  lacking 
one  day  of  being  70  years  old.  She  died  in  1830,  at  the  age 
of  92. 

Daniel  Carter,  Sr.,  married  about  1722-1725  Elizabeth  Pannil, 
daughter  of  William  Pannil,  of  Richmond  county,  and  had  issue : 

1.  William  Pannil  Carter,  died  in  Prince  William  county  in 
Sept.,  1794. 

2.  John  Carter.    Supposed  to  have  been  killed  by  Indians. 

3.  Joseph  Carter,  said  to  have  settled  in  one  of  the  Carolinas. 

4.  Thomas  Carter,  said  to  have  settled  in  one  of  the  Carolinas. 

5.  Robert  Carter.    U,<xd         v^Ci/v-v'  A*"* 

6.  Margaret  Carter,  married  William  Kent. 

7.  Mary  E.  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Kirk. 

8.  Frances  Carter,  born  in  1738,  died  in  1830,  unmarried. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  211 

9.  Daniel  Carter,  born  in  1738,  died  Oct.  1,  1794. 

The  last  two  were  probably  twins,  though  the  MSS.  does  not 
state  so,  though  it  is  possible  for  one  to  have  been  born  in  the 
first  part  of  the  year  and  the  other  at  the  close. 

Daniel  Carter,  Sr.'s  personal  estate  amounted  to  £343  2s.  4d. 
and  included  eight  negroes,  a  sword,  books,  and  the  usual  furni- 
ture.   It  was  returned  to  court  in  Lancaster  on  Nov.  16,  1759. 

Pannil  Excursus. 

William  Pannil,  father  of  Mrs.  Daniel  Carter,  died  in  Richmond  County 
in  1716.  Will,  probated  Augt.  1,  1716,  names  wife  Frances,  and  children, 
William,  David,  George,  Eliabctli,  Frances,  Katharine,  and  Mary. 

A  petition  to  the  Richmond  County  Court  on  June  1,  1698,  from  Wil- 
liam Pannil  and  Frances  his  wife,  recites  that  William  Mills  formerly  of 
Rappahannock,  owned  land  which  descended  to  his  daughters  Ann  and 
Elizabeth,  and  that  the  sd  Frances  Pannil  was  the  daughter  and  heir  of 
the  sd  Elizabeth ;  but  it  does  not  give  the  name  of  the  husband  of  Eliza- 
beth Mills. 

Elizabeth  Pannil  Carter's  brother,  Wm.  Pannil,  Jr.,  removed  to  Orange 
County  about  1735,  and  Has  had  many  prominent  and  distinguished  de- 
scendants in  Virginia  and  other  Southern  States,  among  whom  may  be 
mentioned  the  famous  Confederate  Cavalryman,  Gen.  J.  E.  B.  Stuart,  and 
the  late  Gov.  Holt  of  North  Carolina.  See  William  and  Mary  Quarterly, 
Vol.  VI. 

i.  William  Pannil  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Daniel  and  Eliza- 
beth P.  Carter,  was  born  in  Lancaster  about  1724-1725,  and  died 
about  the  first  of  Sept.,  1794,  in  Prince  William  county.  His 
will  was  probated  Sept.  5,  1794,  and  mentions  the  following 
children:  Mary  Deacons,  Catharine  Carter,  died  unmarried  ini8i9 
— inventory  ;  Daniel  Carter,  died  in  1839 — inventory;  Sarah  Lynn ; 
William  Carter,  Jr.,  and  John  Carter,  died  in  1819 — inventory. 

One  of  the  sons,  Daniel,  William,  or  John,  had  a  son,  Addison 
B.  Carter,  who  sold  in  1829  two  hundred  and  seventy-two  acres 
of  land,  part  of  which  had  fallen  to  him  in  the  division  of  the 
estate  of  his  aunt,  Catharine  Carter. 

William  Carter,  Jr.'s  will  was  probated  in  Prince  William, 
Sept.  6,  1858,  and  names  wife,  Nancy,  son,  Philip,  daughter, 
"Abbigale,  to  have  the  manchion  house,"  daughter,  Jane  Duvall, 
son,  Daniel  and  his  children,  son,  William,  daughter,  Mary  Carter, 


212       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

and  son,  John  Carter.     Abagail  Carter's  will  was  probated  Oct. 
12,  and  left  all  estate  to  brother  John  and  Sister  Mary. 

Daniel  Carter  Family — South  Carolina  Branch. 

5.  Robert  Carter,  born  between  1725  and  1738,  who  quarreled 
with  his  father  and  left  home  before  his  father  died,  may  have 
been  the  Robert  Carter  who  emigrated  from  Virginia  (place  un- 
known) to  Sumpter  county,  Camden  District,  S.  C,  about  1752, 
where  he  was  married  in  1754  to  Margaret,  daughter  of  William 
Brunson.  In  my  former  account  of  this  family,  not  knowing 
of  Daniel  Carter's  son,  Robert,  I  advanced  the  opinion  that 
Robert  of  South  Carolina  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Carter  of  Spotsyl- 
vania, who  had  a  son  born  in  1735  and  lost  sight  of  between 
f      1751-1760.  ")W   todtar    •  Co, 

Robert  Carter  of  South  Carolina  was  a  member  of  the  Pro- 
vincincial  Congress  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  in  1775.  He  made  his 
will  Dec.  28,  1791,  in  which  he  named  the  following  children: 

10.  Robert  Carter,  Jr.,  born  about  1755,  who  left  issue  two 
sons,  who  died  without  issue. 

11.  James  Carter,  born  about  1757,  had  a  son,  John,  who  was 
educated  by  his  bachelor  uncle,  Benjamin  Carter,  served  one  or 
two  terms  in  Congress  and  died  without  issue.  Some  members 
of  this  family  say  that  the  above  John  Carter's  father  was  William 
Carter,  and  there  was  no  Robert  Carter,  Jr. 

12.  Benjamin  Carter,  born  about  1759,  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tion as  captain  in  the  North  Carolina  line,  and  after  the  war 
received  a  grant  of  five  thousand  acres  of  land  in  Williamson 
county,  Tenn.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Cincinnati, 
which  honor  is  now  held  by  his  grandnephew,  Mr.  Benjamin  F. 
Carter,  Pulaski,  Tenn.    Captain  Benjamin  Carter  died  unmarried. 

13.  Daniel  Carter,  born  Nov.  27,  1761,  died  in  Tennessee  in 
1834.  If  Robert  Carter  of  South  Carolina  was  a  son  of  Daniel 
Carter,  who  died  in  Lancaster  county,  Va.,  in  1759,  then  this 
son  of  his  was  probably  named  for  his  father  after  he  heard  of 
his  death.  Daniel  Carter  of  South  Carolina  was  a  lieutenant  of 
cavalry  in  the  Revolution,  and  after  the  war  purchased  and  settled 
on  a  part  of  his  brother's  grant  in  Tennessee.     He  married  in 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  213 

South  Carolina  on  July  2,  1782,  Sarah  Conyers,  and  had  issue: 
James  Rutherford,  Robert,  William,  Daniel,  Dr.  Benjamin,  John 
Conyers,  Isaac,  Alexander,  Milton,  Anderson,  Margaret,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  Agnes  Caroline  and  Susannah  Amelia.  Dr.  Benjamin 
Carter,  born  June  14,  1792,  died  in  1865  in  Pulaski,  Tenn.  He 
had  issue :  Elizabeth,  married  Robert  Rodes ;  Cornelia,  married 
Dr.  Jacob  Epperson ;  Mary  Margaret,  married  Robert  H.  Wat- 
kins  ;  and  an  only  son,  Benjamin  F.,  born  in  1829,  who  served  as  a 
major  on  the  staff  of  General  John  Carter  Brown  in  the  Con- 
federate army.  He  has  sons,  John  Rivers  Carter,  a  civil  en- 
gineer at  Birmingham,  Ala.,  and  Benjamin  Carter,  Jr.,  an  at- 
torney at  Washington,  D.  C. 

Robert  Carter  also  had  daughters,  Margaret  Alexander  and 
Susan  Storrey,  mentioned  in  his  will. 

9.  Daniel  Carter,  Jr.,  youngest  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
Pannil  Carter,  born  in  1738,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1794.  The 
old  vestry  book  of  St.  Mary's  and  Christ  Church  shows  that 
Daniel  Carter  was  the  clerk  of  the  vestry  of  the  lower  church 
in  the  years  1759  and  1760,  for  which  he  received  a  salary  of 
1,700  pounds  of  tobacco  in  the  first  year  and  1,200  in  the  second. 
His  will,  probated  Oct.  20,  1794,  mentions  wife,  Rachel,  and 
children,  John,  Ambrose  and  Betsy ;  but  the  account  of  the  family 
prepared  by  John  Carter  of  "The  Nest,"  Lancaster  county  in 
1^58  shows  that  Daniel  Carter  had  a  son,  Joseph,  born  seven 
months  after  the  death  of  his  father. 

14.  Ambrose  Carter,  born  prior  to  1779.     No  other  data. 

15.  John  Carter,  born  in  1779,  was  living  in  1858.-    Unmarried. 

16.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  about  1781,  died  unmarried. 

17.  Joseph  Carter,  born  in  April,  1795,  died  in  1849  m  Ken- 
tucky. 

17.  Joseph  Carter,  was  born  seven  months  after  the  death 
of  his  father,  and  when  his  mother  had  reached  the  age  of  forty- 
three.  May  10,  1820,  he  was  married  to  Sarah  Anne  Brent,  of 
Lancaster  county,  Va.,  and  the  following  year  emigrated  to  Lin- 
coln county,  Ken.  He  also  owned  a  good  deal  of  land  in  Whitley 
county.     They  had  issue: 


214       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

1 8.  Sarah  Anne  Carter,  died,  unmarried,  of  tuberculosis. 

19.  Elizabeth  Carter,  died,  unmarried,  of  tuberculosis. 

20.  Rachel  Carter,  died,  unmarried,  of  tuberculosis. 

21.  Frances  Carter,  died,  unmarried,  of  tuberculosis. 

22.  Brent  Carter,  died  unmarried. 

23.  Daniel  Carter,  eldest  son,  born  June  1,  1821,  died  Oct. 
30,  1848. 

24.  Thomas  Carter,  born  1825,  died  November,  1907. 

23.  Daniel  Carter,  was  married  June  8,  1842,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  Smith,  of  Lincoln  county,  and  had 
issue  two  children — Mary  and  John  Carter,  who  removed  to 
San  Francisco  after  the  war.  He  died  there  in  1900  unmarried, 
and  his  sister,  Miss  Mary  Carter,  has  since  returned  to  Ken- 
tucky, where  she  expects  to  make  her  future  home. 

24.  Thomas  Carter,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Sally  Brent 
Carter,  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Confederate  army,  and  after  the 
war  bore  the  popular  title  of  "Colonel."  He  was  married  Oct. 
2,  1847,  to  Betty  Yarborough,  who  bore  him  two  sons  and  a 
daughter,  all  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Carter  died  in 
Feb.,  1861.  At  the  close  of  the  war  Colonel  Carter  went  to 
Chicago  and  opened  a  feed  store  and  livery  stable,  which  were 
burned  in  the  great  Chicago  fire  a  few  years  later.  Among  the 
heirlooms  and  other  personal  belongings  burned  in  his  room 
above  the  store,  were  the  portraits  of  Major  Dale  and  Captain 
Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  of  Lancaster  county,  both  of  which  had 
come  down  in  the  Daniel  Carter  branch  of  the  family.  Fortu- 
nately he  had  had  them  photographed,  after  going  to  Chicago, 
for  his  niece  and  nephew,  and  equally  as  fortunate  there  hap- 
pened to  be  copies  of  these  photos  among  his  personal  papers 
that  were  rescued  from  the  fire,  as  the  photographs  sent  to  his 
niece  were  afterward  misplaced  and  lost. 

A  short  time  before  Colonel  Carter's  death  in  1907  I  had  the 
pleasure  of  spending  half  a  day  with  him,  when  he  gave  me  the 
photo  of  the  Dale  portrait  but  thought  the  photograph  of  the 
Carter  picture  lost.  After  his  death  it  was  found  among  his 
papers,  as  well  as  the  little  leather  bound  diary  of  1858,  in  which 


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GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  215 

was  written  for  him  by  his  uncle  John  Carter,  of  Lancaster,  an 
account  of  the  Carter  family.  Though  physically  weak,  being 
then  in  his  eighty-second  year,  Colonel  Carter's  mind  was  quite 
active  and  he  was  able  to  give  me  a  good  deal  of  data  that  has 
been  of  considerable  assistance  in  tracing  several  branches  of 
the  family.  He  was  much  interested  in  the  history  of  his  an- 
cestors, and  I  regret  that  this  book  could  not  have  been  com- 
pleted in  his  lifetime.  Colonel  Carter  was  a  typical  "gentle- 
man of  the  old  school,"  and  my  half  day  with  him  will  always 
be  a  most  pleasant  memory.  As  a  memento  of  our  friendship, 
as  well  as  owing  to  the  fact  that  he  had  no  near  relatives  except 
his  unmarried  niece,  Colonel  Carter  devised  to  me  an  ivory  minia- 
ture, set  in  gold,  of  himself,  and  a  gold  pen  and  pencil  set  with 
a  large  topaz.  These  were  the  bridal  gifts  exchanged  by  him 
and  his  wife  when  they  married  in  1847,  and  were  sent  to  me  by 
his  executor  after  he  died. 


Edward  Carter  of  Westmoreland  County, 
Virginia 

Edward  Carter,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  and  his 
wife,  Arabella  Williamson,  of  "Barford,"  Lancaster  county,  was 
probably  the  fourth  son. 

I  have  been  able  to  secure  but  little  data  of  him  and  his 
descendants. 

The  Carter  MSS.  of  1858,  says:  "Grandfather's  brothers, 
James  and  Edward,  settled  in  Westmoreland  and  had  big  fami- 
lies.    James  married  a  Miss and  had  sons,  Tom 

and  Edward,  and  three  or  four  others.  Some  of  the  Neales  ana 
Popes  are  descended  from  him.  Edward  married  a  Miss  Betty 
Heale  and  had  sons,  George,  John,  Edward  and  Charles,  who 
all  moved  away  after  the  war  of  Independence."  In  a  list  of 
slave  owners  in  Westmoreland  county  in  1782  there  appears  the 
names  of  a  John  Carter,  owner  of  20  servants,  and  a  Charles 
Carter,  owner  of  19.  They  may  have  been  the  above  mentioned 
sons  of  Edward  Carter. 

Mrs.  Betty  Heale  Carter  was  probably  Elizabeth  Heale,  born 
March  8,  17 10,  daughter  of  George  and  Catharine  Chinn  Heale, 
of  Lancaster,  as  there  seems  to  be  no  other  Elizabeth  Heale  of 
that  period  unaccounted  for.  If  this  is  true  she  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  George  Heale,  Sr.,  who  was  a  justice  of  Lancaster 
court  in  1684,  Burgess  in  1695  and  1697.  He  was  a  son  of 
Nicholas  Haile,  of  York  county,  and  died  in  Lancaster  in  1697. 
His  children  intermarried  with  the  Balls,  Chinns,  Downman  J, 
Opies,  and  other  well  known  families  of  the  Northern  Neck. 

Sept.  29,  1747,  Edward  Carter,  of  Westmoreland,  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  court  of  that  county  the  guardian  of  his  brother, 
James  Carter's  orphans,  and  from  that  date  until  his  death  in 
1760  he  returned  annual  reports  of  his  charge.  June  24,  1760, 
administration  papers  on  the  estate  of  Edward  Carter,  deceased, 
were  granted  to  Augustine  Washington.  The  inventory  of  his 
estate  was  returned  to  court  March  31,  1761,  and  recorded,  but 
is  not  to  be  found  at  this  time  in  the  records. 


Descendants  of  James  Carter  of  Westmoreland 
County,  Virginia 

James  Carter,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  of  "Bar- 
ford,"  and  his  wife,  Arabella  Williamson,  was  probably  the  sixth 
son.  He  was  probably  married  about  1728,  as  in  that  year  his 
father  made  a  deed  of  gift  to  him  for  a  negro  man,  and  also 
left  h;m  in  his  will  "the  great  bed  and  furniture  above  stairs," 
besides  a  share  in  the  residuary  estate. 

From  the  peculiar  name  of  James  Carter's  wife — Joyce — it 
is  thought  that  she  may  have  been  a  granddaughter  of  Daniel 
and  Joyce  Holland,  of  Northumberland  county.  She  may  pos- 
sibly have  been  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Xeale  (born  1642,  died 
1727)  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  a  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Joyce 
Holland,  as  James  Carter's  descendants  perpetuated  names  pe- 
culiar to  the  Neale  family.  Richard  Carter,  a  grandson  of  James 
and  Joyce,  owned  land  in  Northumberland,  which  he  seems  to 
have  had  by  inheritance,  probably  through  his  grandmother. 

James  Carter  does  not  appear  in  the  Lancaster  records  after 
the  death  of  his  father,  in  1733.  Jan.  24,  1746,  James  Carter, 
of  Washington  parish,  Westmoreland  county,  had  a  lease  of  a 
plantation  in  that  parish  from  Daniel  McCarthy  for  the  term 
of  his  lifetime,  for  which  he  paid  a  yearly  rental  of  £6  5s.  This 
term  was  very  short,  as  on  May  8,  1748,  the  inventory  of  the 
estate  of  James  Carter,  deceased,  was  returned  to  the  Westmore- 
land court  by  Joice  Carter,  his  relict  and  administratrix. 

Sept.  29,  1747,  Edward  Carter  was  appointed  guardian  of  his 
brother's  orphans,  named  as  follows :  Thomas,  James,  Edward 
and  Sarah  Carter.  For  the  next  thirteen  years  he  returned  an- 
nual reports  of  their  estate  to  the  court,  and  in  1758  petitioned 
the  House  of  Burgesses  for  pay  for  a  runaway  slave  of  James 
Carter's  heirs,  who  had  been  legally  outlawed,  and  was  later 
found  dead  in  the  woods. 

June  30,  1761,  the  Westmoreland  county  court  ordered  that  the 
estate  of  James  Carter,  deceased,  be  divided  between  his  orphans 


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according  to  law,  viz. :  Thomas  Carter,  James  Carter,  Edward 
Carter  and  Sarah  Carter.  They  must  have  all  been  of  age  at  this 
time,  and  were  probably  born  as  follows : 

i.  Thomas  Carter,  born  circa  1733- 1734,  died  in  1781. 

2.  James  Carter,  born  circa  1735-1736. 

3.  Edward  Carter,  born  circa  1737-1738. 

4.  Sarah  Carter,  born  circa   1739-40. 

The  commissioners  appointed  by  the  court  in  1761  reported 
to  the  court  on  March  29,  1763,  that  this  division  had  been  made. 
I  have  no  data  of  the  descendants  of  Edward,  James  or  Sarah 
Carter,  but  Edward  and  James  may  have  been  the  ancestors 
of  the  Carters  named  in  the  following  Westmoreland  marriage 
bonds: 

Elizabeth  Carter  and  Richard  Weaver,  Aug.  30,  1786;  Martha 
Carter  and  Jeremiah  Edmonds,  April  2,  1791 ;  Elizabeth  Carter 
and  Reuben  Gutridge,  July  13,  1797;  Sarah  Carter  and  William 
Wroe,  June  27,  1797;  John  Carter  and  Mary  Carter,  Sept.  19, 
J797;  Catharine  Carter  and  Herman  Jenkins,  Oct.  20,  1801 ; 
Elizabeth  Carter  and  William  Ryals,  1806;  Daniel  Carter  and 
Naomi  Fones,  Sept.  9,  1807;  Polly  Carter  and  Charles  Tuxan, 
Jan.  6,  1819;  Daniel  Carter  and  Sally  Hinson,  Oct.  30,  1822. 
The  last  two  named  may  have  been  grandchildren  of  Thomas 
Carter,  eldest  son  of  James. 

1.  Thomas  Carter,  supposed  to  have  been  the  eldest  son  of 
James  and  Joyce  Carter — at  least  the  eldest  of  those  who  were 
under  age  when  James  Carter  died,  probably  married  about 
1 760- 1 765.  His  wife's  name  was  Ann  and  the  name  of  her 
youngest  son,  Presley  Carter,  suggests  that  she  may  have  been 
a  member  of  the  family  of  Neale,  Stone,  McKenny,  Cox  ai 
Garner,  in  all  of  which  Presley  was  a  given  name ;  however, 
as  suggested  above,  this  name  may  have  come  into  this  branch 
of  the  Carter  family  through  the  wife  of  James  Carter. 

Thomas  Carter  owned  a  small  tract  of  land  in  Lancaster  that 
formerly  belonged  to  his  grandfather,  Captain  Thomas  Carter, 
Jr.,  of  "Barford,"  so  that  his  will  was  recorded  in  the  latter 
county.  It  was  probated  in  Lancaster  March  15,  1781,  and 
bequeathed     his  saddle,  bridle  and  certain  wearing  apparel  to 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  219 

brother,  Edward  Carter;  the  rest  of  his  estate  of  all  kinds  to 
wife,  Anne  Carter,  and  her  heirs — presumably  his  children.  It 
is  thought  that  his  widow,  Ann  Carter,  was  probably  the  Mrs. 
Ann  Carter  who  was  the  head  of  a  family  of  seven  whites  and 
two  servants  in  Northumberland  county  in  1782,  as  the  Lan- 
caster census  of  1782  shows  no  Mrs.  Anne  Carter,  nor  does 
the  Westmoreland  list  of  slave  owners  in  1782,  though  her  in- 
ventory of  estate  in  Westmoreland  in  1789  shows  that  she  owned 
slaves.  At  the  same  time  there  was  a  Richard  Carter  in  Northum- 
berland, head  of  a  family  of  three  whites — this  was  probably 
Thomas  and  Ann  Carter's  son,  Richard,  as  deeds  show  that  he 
was  a  resident  of  Northumberland  at  a  later  period ;  also  Thomas 
and  Anne  Carter's  son,  Thomas,  Jr.,  is  supposed  to  have  been 
the  Thomas  Carter  who  was  living  in  Northumberland  in  1784 
with  a  wife  and  two  children. 

The  will  of  Mrs.  Anne  Carter,  widow  of  Thomas  Carter,  was 
probated  in  Westmoreland  county,  Jan.  5,  1789.  She  gave  her 
daughter,  Mary  Neale,  her  riding  mare,  "Lillyfoot" ;  daughter, 
Frances  Carter,  a  mare  colt,  a  large  oval  table  and  half  a  dozen 
china  cups  and  saucers;  daughter,  Jane  Carter,  a  bed,  low  bed- 
stead, chest,  half  a  dozen  china  cups  and  saucers,  tea  pot  and 
tea  kettle ;  daughter,  Lucy  Carter,  the  bed  and  furniture  she 
lay  on,  looking  glass  and  spice  mortar;  sons,  Robert,  Thomas, 
John  and  George  Carter,  and  daughters,  Anne  Annadele  and 
Sarah  Payne,  five  shillings  each  ;  son,  Richard  Carter  ;  son,  Presley 
Carter,  and  daughters,  Frances,  Lucy  and  Jane  Carter  to  share 
equally  in  the  residuary  estate.  Son-in-law,  Presley  Neale,  and 
friend,  Daniel  McCarthy,  to  be  executors  of  her  will  and  guar- 
dians of  her  son,  Presley  Carter,  until  he  was  of  age. 

5.  Richard  Carter. 

6.  Thomas  Carter. 

7.  Robert  Carter. 

8.  George  Carter. 

9.  John  Carter. 

10.  Presley  Carter. 

11.  Anne  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Annadale. 

12.  Sarah  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Payne. 


220       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

13.  Mary  Carter,  married  Presley  Neale. 

14.  Frances  Carter,  married  Lawrence  Pope. 

15.  Jane  Carter,  married  Joseph   Annadale. 

16.  Lucy  Carter. 

5.  Richard  Carter,  was  married  in  Westmoreland,  Dec.  21, 
1790,  to  Susannah  Briscoe.  She  was  probably  his  second  wife, 
if  I  am  right  in  thinking  he  was  the  Richard  Carter  who  ap- 
peared in  Northumberland  county  census  of  1782.  Nov.  18. 
1798,  Richard  Lee,  gentleman,  and  wife,  Anne,  deeded  to  Rich- 
ard Carter,  planter,  of  Westmoreland,  535V2  acres  of  land  in 
that  county,  with  the  houses,  mills  and  other  improvements  there- 
on. Richard  Carter  seems  to  have  also  purchased  a  tract  of  land 
from  Henry  Lee,  as  May  13,  18 16,  Richard  Carter  and  wife, 
Susannah,  of  Northumberland  county,  sold  to  Richard  Neale, 
a  tract  of  474  acres  he  had  purchased  from  Henry  Lee.  This 
land  adjoined  the  land  of  John  Neale  and  other  heirs  of  Presley 
Neale,  on  Presley  Neal's  mill  dam,  and  cornering  to  the  lands 
of  his  brother,  Robert  Carter.  No  other  data  of  Richard  Carter 
and  his  descendants. 

6.  Thomas  Carter,  no  data  other  than  that  he  was  probably 
living  in  Northumberland  in  1784  with  wife  and  two  children. 

7.  Robert  Carter,  was  married  in  Westmoreland,  June  22, 
I79S>  to  Nancy  Spillman,  or  Spellman,  and  was  living  in  that 
county  in  18 16. 

The  Spillmans  were  early  and  prominent  settlers  in  West- 
moreland, going  back  to  Clement  Spillman,  who  was  a  justice 
of  Westmoreland  Court  and  died  in  1677.  They  are  connected 
with  the  Kenners,  Foxes,  Cralles  and  other  well  known  N.  N. 
families. 

Robert  and  Nancy  Spillman  Carter  had  issue  at  least  three 
children,  as  Feb.  14,  1827,  Robert  Carter  and  wife,  Margaret, 
Landon  Carter  and  Presley  Carter,  of  Westmoreland  county,  sold 
to  John  Spillman,  of  Richmond  county,  a  small  tract  of  land 
formerly  owned  by  their  father,  Robert  Carter,  deceased. 

Robert  Carter,  Jr.,  was  married  on  Feb.  16,  1820,  to  Margaret 
Sanders. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  22 1 

8.  George  Carter,  married  July  5,  1792,  Lettice,  daughter  of 
Luke  Stowers,  of  Richmond  county,  and  died  before  1816.  He 
had  a  daughter,  Lettice,  who  married  Geo.  V.  Hudson,  April 
25,  1814;  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  married  John  Pusley  on 
Aug.  31,  18 16,  with  the  consent  of  her  guardian,  her  uncle,  John 
Carter,  and  daughter,  Frances,  who  married  William  Redman, 
Aug.  11,  1821,  with  the  consent  of  her  mother,  Lettice  Carter. 
There  may  have  been  other  children,  but  I  have  no  data  of  them. 

9.  John  Carter,  married  Feb.  15,  1798,  Sarah  Brewer,  and 
died  prior  to  1824.    They  had  issue : 

17.  William  Carter.     No  data. 

18.  John  S.  Carter,  married  (1).  Eliza  Anne  Harrison,  March 
4,  1815;  (2).  Anne  Pierce,  July  31,  1824.  He  is  said  to  have 
gone  to  Australia. 

19.  Presley  Carter,  was  a  ship  captain  and  died  on  board 
his  ship  off  the  coast  of  Valparaiso. 

20.  George  Washington  Carter. 

21.  Sarah  Carter,  married  Hiram  Smithers,  June  11,  1824,  with 
consent  of  mother,  Sally  Carter. 

20.  George  Washington  Carter,  married  in  Westmoreland 
county,  Va.,  in  1834,  Catharine  Elizabeth  Berkeley.  She  had 
brothers,  Charles  and  John  Berkeley. 

About  1 838- 1 840  they  removed  from  Virginia  to  Morgan 
county,  Missouri,  where  Catharine  Elizabeth  Berkeley  Carter 
died  in  1847,  and  George  W.  Carter  in  1849.  Their  children  then 
went  to  live  with  friends  in  St.  Louis.,  and  there  being  no  com- 
munication between  them  and  their  relations  in  Virginia,  their 
descendants  know  but  little  of  their  Virginia  ancestors.  They 
had  issue: 

21.  Mary  Frances  Carter,  born  in  1835,  died  March  30,  1866. 

22.  Wheeler  Carter,  born  in  1837,  died  about   1900. 
22,.  Susan  Elizabeth  Carter. 

24.  Lettice  Anne  Carter. 

25.  Catharine  Carter,  died  in  infancy. 

26.  Penelope  Carter  (later  called  Carrie  by  her  foster  mother). 


222       GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

21.  Mary  Frances  Carter,  married  in  St.  Louis  on  Feb.  22, 
1859,  Asa  Maddox,  and  went  to  live  in  Kansas  City.  They  had 
issue:  Truston  Annon  Maddox,  born  in  Nov.,  i860,  died  in 
April,  1861 ;  and  Effie  A.  Maddox,  born  July  21,  1861,  married 
Dempster  Wishart  on  March  22,  1882.     No  issue. 

22.  Wheeler  Carter,  married  Emily  Jones  in  1858,  and  had 
four  children,  Cora,  married  a  Mr.  Meekins,  and  is  now  a  widow 
with  one  child,  Neola,  who  is  about  twelve  years  old.  They 
live  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

George  Carter,  died  in  infancy. 

Frances  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Mullencott,  and  is  now  a  widow 
with  three  sons.    They  live  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Ophelia  Carter,  married  Edward  Hollowell,  and  has  a  daughter 
about  12  years  old.     They  live  in  Chicago. 

Mrs.  Wheeler  Carter  lives  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  1203  Arapahoe 
Street. 

23.  Susan  Elizabeth  Carter,  married  Matthew  Martin  Flesh 
on  March  30,  1858,  and  lives  in  St.  Louis.  They  have  five 
children: 

Laura  Flesh,  married  C.  L.  Goodloe,  and  has  a  son,  Dem- 
ster  Wishart  Goodloe. 

Frances  Flesh,  married  T.  P.  Moore,  and  died  Aug.  26,  1905. 
They  had  three  sons,  Perry  Moore,  died  in  1900,  Matthew  Moore, 
and  Lee  Moore. 

Lillie  Flesh,  married  (1).  a  Mr.  Fisher,  and  had  a  daughter, 
Irene  Fisher,  and  (2).  W.  F.  Olcar,  and  has  a  son,  W.  F. 
Olcar,  Jr. 

Edward  Flesh,  had  one  child,  Hetty  May,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  six  years. 

Mattie  Flesh,  unmarried.  Mrs.  Susan  E.  Carter  Flesh,  died 
April  30,   1902. 

24.  Lettie  Anne  Carter,  married  (1).  Richard  Hill,  and 
had  three  sons : 

Richard  Hill,  Jr.,  died  in  infancy. 

William  Hill,  married,  but  has  no  children. 


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Leroy  Hill,  married,  and  has  a  daughter,  Grace,  about  12 
years  old. 

Mrs.  Hill  married  (2).  Wm.  T.  Jones,  brother  of  her  brother 
Wheeler's  wife.     She  had  four  children  by  this  marriage: 

Claudia  and  Olive  (twins),  the  latter  died  in  infancy,  and  the 
former  married  Charles  Burlingame  and  died  about  10  years 
ago,  leaving  a  daughter,  Annie,  aged  6  years,  and  a  son,  Lamar, 
aged  four. 

Clarence  Jones,  died  in  infancy. 

Varilla  Jones,  married  Harvey  Todd,  and  lives  in  Chicago. 
No  issue. 

25.  Penelope  Carter,  married  on  Feb.  3,  1869,  Asa  Maddox, 
whose  first  wife  was  her  sister,  Mary  Frances.  She  lives  now 
in  Chicago.     No  issue. 

The  above  data  furnished  by  Mrs.  Dempster  Wishart,  Kansas 
City,  Mo. 

10.  Presley  Carter,  may  have  been  the  Presley  Carter  who 
was  married  in  Caroline  county  on  Dec.  3,  1794,  to  Elizabeth 
Pettus,  as  the  Presley  Carter  of  the  Caroline  county  family  seems 
to  have  been  living  in  Halifax  county  at  that  time.  No  other 
data. 

13.  Mary  Carter,  married  prior  to  1789  Presley  Neale,  who 
was  probably  a  cousin.  He  was  dead  May  13,  1816,  and  left 
a  son,  John,  and  other  heirs. 

14.  Frances  Carter,  was  married  on  Dec.  30,  1790,  to  Law- 
rence Pope,  of  Westmoreland  county,  as  his  second  wife. 

Pope  Excursus. 

Lawrence  Pope,  born  in  1740,  died  July  31,  1810;  will  prob.  Aug.  27, 
1810,  in  Westmoreland.  He  was  a  son  of  John  Pope  and  his  wife  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Christopher  Mothershead,  whose  will,  June  11,  1745,  and  men- 
tioned his  daughter  Sarah  Pope.  A  deed  from  John  Pope,  Oct.  27,  1738, 
shows  that  he  was  a  son  of  Lawrence  Pope  and  his  wife  Jemima,  who 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Waddy  of  Westmoreland  and  the  widow 
of  John  Spence.     Lawrence  Pope's  will  was  probated  March  2,  1723,  and 


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GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


left  a  large  estate  to  his  eight  children.  Lawrence  Pope  was  the  eldest 
son  of  Humphrey  Pope  the  first  of  his  family  in  Westmoreland  and  his 
wife  Eliabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Richard  Hawkins.  Humphrey  Pope 
appeared  as  surety  on  the  bond  of  John  Quisenberry  in  Rappahannock 
County,  north  side,  now  Richmond  County,  on  May  12,  1656.  Feb.  2,  1659, 
he  appears  or  the  first  in  the  Westmoreland  records  when  he  bought  150 
acres  of  land  near  the  Cliffs  from  Thomas  Pope.  They  were  probably 
brothers,  or  at  least  cousins.  Thomas  Pope  was  related  by  blood  and 
marriage  to  the  Washingtons.  Humphrey  Pope  died  in  Westmoreland 
County  in  1695.     See  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vol.  XIII. 

Lawrence  Pope  and  his  second  wife,  Frances  Carter,  had  issue 
one  daughter,  Jane  Carter  Pope,  born  Sept.  25,  1791. 

Jane  Carter  Pope,  married  George  Quisenberry,  of  King 
George  county,  and  had  issue : 

Nicholas  Quisenberry,  married  ( 1 ) .  Mary  L.  Grimes,  and  had 
issue,  Mary  and  George;  married  (2).  Rosa  Green,  of  George- 
town Heights,  and  had  issue,  Lucy,  Nicholas,  Alice  and  Rousby. 

Austin  Quisenberry,  moved  to  La  Grange,  Mo.,  and  had  issue, 
Martha,  Catharine  and  Augustine. 

William  Augustine   Quisenberry,  never  married. 

Catharine  Quisenberry,  married  William  B.  Marmaduke,  and 
had  issue,  William  Carter  and  Joseph. 

Pope  Quisenberry,  never  married. 


Descendants  of  Peter  Carter  of  King  George 
and  Fauquier 

Peter  Carter,  fifth  son  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Arabella  Carter, 
was  born  in  1706  at  "Barford,"  Lancaster  county,  and  died  in 
1789  (or  in  January,  1790)  in  Fauquier  county,  Virginia;  and 
has  left  few  notices  of  himself  in  the  public  records.  His  father, 
Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Jr.,  in  his  will — dated  April  24,  1728 — 
made  him  executor  in  case  of  the  death  or  remarriage  of  his 
wife,  Arabella  Carter ;  and  also  made  him  guardian  of  his  brother, 
Charles  Carter,  until  the  latter  arrived  at  the  age  of  twenty 
years.  Under  this  will,  Peter  Carter  inherited  the  half  of  his 
father's  five  hunderd  acre  plantation  next  to  the  river  in  King 
George  county,  and  his  just  share  of  the  residuary  estate.  In 
the  account  written  in  1858  of  the  Carter  family  it  is  stated  that 
Peter  Carter  purchased  the  rest  of  this  plantation  and  lived  here 
until  late  in  life,  when  he  removed  to  Fauquier  with  his  son, 
George  Carter.  Peter  Carter  owned  the  old  Prayer  Book  of 
his  grandfather,  Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Sr.,  which  contains 
many  valuable  records  of  the  family.  This  old  book  descended 
to  Elizabeth  Carter,  daughter  of  George  Carter,  grandson  of 
Peter,  who  in  the  fifties  became  the  second  wife  of  a  Mr.  John 
Payne.  They  removed  to  California  after  the  war,  where  she 
died  without  issue.  The  old  Prayer  Book,  with  other  personal 
belongings  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter  Payne,  passed  to  her  step- 
daughter, Mary  Payne,  who  is  now  Mrs.  John  Scarlett  Smith. 
She  saw  the  Carter  genealogy  as  it  appeared  in  the  William  and 
Mary  Quarterly  and  wrote  me  about  the  book.  In  addition  to 
a  great  deal  of  data  of  other  Carters,  this  old  book  contains  a 
good  deal  of  Peter  Carter  and  his  children.  He  evidently  ex- 
perienced a  deeper  religious  feeling  in  the  years  1775  and  1788 
than  at  other  times,  as  under  these  dates  he  made  several  records 
in  the  old  prayer  book,  of  which  the  following  is  an  example: 

"Ye  Datte  of  this  Holy  Book  is  at  it  stands  from  the  printer 


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as  follows.    MDCLXII  (1662)  in  the  year  of  my  God  1775  and 
in  ye  year  of  my  Xattral  Life  69." 

"In  ye  Year  of  my  God  1788  and  in  the  year  of  my  Nattral 
Life  82  Lord  Give  me  a  Clean  heart  And  Renew  a  right  spearit 
within  me  in  ye of  my  Life  82." 

"Romans  ye  10  Chap  &  9  vers.  If  thou  shalt  confess  with 
thine  mouth  the  Lord  Jesus;  and  shall  Believe  in  thine  heart 
that  God  hath  Rased  him  from  the  Dead  thou  shalt  be  saved. 

"Romans  ye  10  &  9  vers  my  Natral  Life  82  in  ye  year  of  my 
God  1788. 

Peter  Carter." 

The  inventory  of  his  personal  estate  was  recorded  in  Fauquier 
on  22nd  of  February,  1790,  and  he  probably  died  either  in  Dec, 
1789,  or  Jan.,  1790.  This  inventory  mentions  two  negro  men 
servants,  bed  and  furniture,  chest,  6  chairs,  and  other  furniture 
of  a  bedroom.  He  evidently  lived  with  his  son,  George,  who 
was  living  in  that  county.  Peter  Carter  seems  to  have  been 
the  last  of  his  generation  of  the  family  to  die,  as  in  recording 
the  deaths  of  his  brother,  Dale,  and  cousin,  Thomas,  both  of 
whom  died  in  Lancaster  in  Dec,  1776,  he  said:  "Now  indeed 
am  I  the  last  of  my  generation,  the  lone  leaf  on  the  tree  Waiting 
the  last  Frost." 

The  records  of  his  own  family  seems  to  have  been  written  in 
the  Prayer  Book  at  one  time  with  a  trembling,  old  hand,  the 
year  before  he  died: 

"In  the  year  1788  &  in  ye  year  my  Life  82.  58  years  last 
May  Day  (May  1st,  1730)  I  was  Married  to  Judith  Norris  who 
passt  on  ye  I5h  day  May  1765.     We  was  Blest  with  9  sons  and 

4  daughters  viz. Dale  &  Thomas  on  ye  2411  April  173 1.    Judy 

on  ye  2d  Novm  1732.  Job  on  ye  Ist  Jan'y  1734.  Joseph  on  ye 
4th  September  1736.  Arabella  Catharine  on  ye  17  August  1738. 
Solomon  on  ye  25  Septr.  1739.  Frances  Ball  on  ye  8h  Jan'y 
1741.  Peter  on  ye  9h  March  1743.  Sarah  on  ye  i6h  June  1744. 
Daniel  on  ye  22d  Dec.  1746  ye  same  Day  and  year  as  Dan1  son 
of  my  cozen  Rob1  Carter.  Norris  on  ye  8h  Novembr  1748  and" 
George  on  15  March  1757.  of  which  Thomas,  Joseph,  Peter, 
Norris,  George,  Frances  and  Sarah  are  now  living.  George 
with  me  Peter  in  Amherst  and  the  others  on  Clinch." 


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Mrs.  Judith  Norris  Carter,  probably  belonged  to  the  Norris 
family  of  Lancaster,  who  were  well  to  do  people  in  that  county, 
but  there  is  nothing  to  give  a  clue  to  the  names  of  her  parents. 
Judith  was  a  baptismal  name  in  the  Lancaster  family,  as  the 
marriage  bonds  of  that  county  show  the  marriages  of  two  Judith 
Norrises;  one  in  1788  to  Fortunatus  George,  and  one  in  1791 
to  John  Brent. 

The  children  of  Peter  and  Judith  Carter  will  be  taken  up 
according  to  where  they  lived,  instead  of  in  the  order  of  their 
birth. 

1.  Job  Carter,  died  in  Amherst  in  1782. 

2.  Solomon   Carter,  died  in  Amherst   in   1786. 

3.  Peter  Carter,  died  in  Amherst  in  1791. 

4.  George  Carter,  living  in  Fauquier  in  1782. 

5.  Thomas  Carter,  died  in  Russell  in  1803. 

6.  Joseph  Carter,  died  in  Russell  in  1809. 

7.  Norris  Carter,  died  in  Scott  in  1816. 

Note. — Scott  was  a  part  of  Russell  till  1813. 

Have  no  data  of  the  sons  Dale  and  Daniel  and  the  daughters, 
other  than  the  dates  of  their  birth.  The  sons  may  have  died  in 
infancy. 

Amherst  Carters. 

1.  Job  Carter  (Peter,3  Thos.2,  Thos.1)  born  Jan.  1,  1734,  prob- 
ably in  King  George  county,  died  in  Nov.,  1782,  in  Amherst — 
will  probated  Dec.  2,  1782.  He  left  land  and  a  good  personal 
estate  to  wife  (unnamed)  and  their  seven  children:  a.  Solomon 
(had  a  grant  in  Amherst  in  1793);  b.  Peter;  c.  Dale;  d.  Job 
(had  grant  in  Amherst  for  290  acres  in  1789)  ;  e.  Elizabeth 
Dawson ;  f .  Nancy  Vaughn ;  g.  William,  who  was  executor.  The 
sons  are  said  to  have  descendants  in  Nelson  county,  Va. 

2.  Solomon  Carter  (Peter3,  Thos.2,  Thos.1),  born  Sept.  25, 
1739,  probably  in  King  George,  died  in  Amherst,  Sept.  28,  1786. 
In  1767  had  a  grant  of  land  in  Albemarle  near  Amherst  line,  and 
had  other  land  in  Amherst  by  deed.  In  1783  was  head  of  family 
of  eight  and  two  servants.    Will,  probated  in  1786,  left  land  and 


228  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

good  personal  estate  to  wife,  Mary  Anne  Bickley  Carter,  and  fol- 
lowing children:  a.  William,  head  of  family  of  three  in  1783;  h. 
Abraham,  granted  856  acres  in  Amherst  between  1788  and  1822; 
c.  Milla  Davis  ;  d.  Peter ;  e.  Sallie ;  f .  Elisha  ;  g.  Patty  ;  h.  Nancy. 
Brother  Peter  and  son  Abraham  executors. 

About  1760  Solomon  Carter  married  Mary  Anne  Bickley  (will 
of  her  father,  John  Bickley,  Amherst,  1793),  daughter  of  John 
Bickley  and  his  first  wife,  Mary  Hurt.  John  Bickley's  second 
wife  was  Mrs.  Susannah  Harding  Ellis,  of  "Red  Hill,"  Amherst, 
mother  of  the  wife  of  Peter  Carter,  of  Amherst. 

Bickley  Excursus. 

John  Bickley,  born  in  King  and  Queen  County,  Dec.  7,  1713,  will 
probated  in  Amherst  County,  Sept.  16,  1793,  was  one  of  the  six  sons  of 
Joseph  Bickley  of  Stratton-Major  parish,  King  and  Queen,  and  his  wife 
Mrs-  Sarah  Shelton  Gissage,  who  were  married  in  March,  1704.  She  was 
the  widow  of  Richard  Gissage,  and  previously  of  a  Mr.  Shelton.  John 
Bickley  married  first,  Mary  Hurt,  and  lived  in  Louisa  County ;  and  second, 
Mrs.  Susannah  Harding  Ellis,  widow  of  Josiah  Ellis  of  "Red  Hill,"  Am- 
herst County,  between  Aug.  14,  1760,  and  Feb.  6,  1769,  and  went  to  live 
at  "Red  Hill,"  where  he  is  buried-  By  his  first  wife  he  had  issue: 
Charles,  Wm.,  Jos.,  Elizabeth  Coleman,  Mary  Anne  Carter,  Jane  Holland, 
Humphrey,  Matilda,  Hannah,  James,  and  Frances.  And  by  his  second 
wife  a  daughter  Mildred. 

Joseph  Bickley,  grandfather  of  Mary  Anne  Carter,  was  the  5th  son  of 
Sir  Francis  Bickley,  third  baronet,  of  "Attleborough  Hall,"  County  Nor- 
folk, England,  and  his  second  wife,  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir 
Humphrey  Winch,  Bart.  This  is  proven  by  the  fact  that  Joseph  and 
Sarah  Gissage  Bickley's  eldest  son,  William  Bickley  of  Virginia,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  baronetcy  in  1752  upon  the  death  of  his  uncle,  Rev.  Sir 
Humphrey  Bickley,  Bart.,  and  rector  of  St.  Mary's  Attleborough.  Joseph 
Bickley  removed  from  King  and  Queen  County  to  that  part  of  Hanover 
which  in  1743  became  Louisa  County,  and  was  the  first  sheriff  of  the  new 
county  as  well  as  a  justice  in  1754.  His  father,  Sir  Francis  Bickley,  3rd 
baronet,  was  buried  at  St.  Mary's,  Attleborough,  June  19,  1687,  and  was 
the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Francis,  2nd  baronet,  and  his  wife  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Maw,  sheriff  of  Norwich  in  1649,  etc.,  etc.  See  account  of  the 
Bickleys  in  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vols.  V.  and  X. 

Bickley  arms:  "Arg.  a  Chev.  embattled,  counter-embattled,  between  3 
griffins  heads  erased  sable,  each  charged  with  a  plate." 


Caroline  M.  Carter, 

Daughter  of  Col.  Charles  Carter,  wife  of  Judge  Raphael   Lancaster, 

Lincoln   County,   Ky. 


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Of  the  descendants  of  Solomon  and  Mary  Anne  Bickley  Car- 
ter I  have  no  further  data,  but  doubtless  there  are  some  of  them 
now  in  Nelson  county,  Ya. 

Peter  Carter  of  Amherst. 

Peter  Carter  (Peter8,  Thos.2),  born  March  9,  1743,  probably 
in  King  George  county,  died  in  Amherst  about  January,  1791. 
Besides  purchasing  land  from  private  parties,  he  had  grants  in 
1768  and  1780  for  land  situated  on  Tobacco  Row  Mountain, 
Amherst.  In  1783  Peter  Carter  was  the  head  of  a  family  of 
ten  whites  and  eight  servants.  And  during  the  Revolution  he  was 
a  private  in  the  Virginia  artillery.  About  1763- 1764  Peter  Carter 
was  married  to  Mary  Anne  Ellis,  born  Dec.  25,  1747,  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Susannah  Harding  Ellis,  of  "Red  Hill,"  Am- 
herst county.  She  removed  in  1798  with  her  eldest  son,  Charles 
Carter,  to  Kentucky,  and  died  there.  In  1849  Mr.  Thomas  H. 
Ellis,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  published  an  account  of  the  Ellis  family 
in  pamphlet  form,  which  contains  data  of  interest  to  the  Peter 
Carter  family. 

Ellis  Excursus. 

The  first  of  the  Ellis  family  in  Virginia  was  John  Ellis  of  Tuckahoe 
Creek,  Henrico  County,  who  is  said  to  have  been  of  Welsh  descent.  He 
aappears  first  in  the  Henrico  records  as  a  witness  at  court,  Oct.  1,  1683. 
In  a  deposition  dated  Feb.  1,  1691,  he  stated  that  he  was  born  in  1661. 
Jan.  31,  i6o7-'c)8,  "John  Ellis  of  Henrico,  Planter,"  sold  240  acres  of 
land  to  John  Pleasants,  Sr.  Dec.  5,  1715,  John  Ellis  and  wife  Susannah 
acknowledged  deed  to  Robt.  Napier.  Dec.  16,  1714,  John  Ellis  had  a  grant 
for  500  acres  on  eastern  branch  of  Tuckahoe  Creek;  and  March  24,  1725, 
a  grant  for  400  acres  more  in  Henrico.  They  had  issue:  John,  William, 
Thomas,  Henry,  James,  Josiah,  and  Charles.  For  their  descendants  see 
the  Ellis  book.  Charles  Ellis,  born  in  i7ic;-'20,  married  in  the  "hard 
winter"  of  1739-40  Susannah  Harding,  by  the  Rev.  Wm.  Stith.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  Harding  and  Mary  Giles  his  wife,  born  in  i72i-'22, 
died  in  March,  1817,  at  "Red  Hill,"  Amherst  County.  In  1754  Charles 
Ellis  removed  his  family  from  Henrico-  to  a  tract  of  land  he  owned  on 
Pedlars  River,  then  in  Albemarle  County,  since  known  as  "Red  Hill," 
where  he  died  May  4,  1759,  and  is  buried  in  the  family  graveyard  at  that 
place.  They  had  issue:  Hannah,  Edith,  Susannah,  Josiah,  Mary  Anne, 
married  Peter  Carter,  Charles,  Sarah,  Bethena,  Elizabeth,  and  Rosana. 


230  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Peter  Carter,  by  his  will,  probated  Feb.  7,  1791,  gave  to  each 
of  his  ten  children  a  negro  servant  and  seventy-five  pounds  cur- 
rent money  and  all  of  his  land,  and  rest  of  personal  estate  to 
his  widow  during  her  widowhood  and  good  management.  Josiah 
Ellis  and  William  Crawford,  executors.  His  personal  estate 
amounted  to  £849  is.6.  All  children  but  Charles  and  Jesse  under 
age  in  1791.  Peter  and  Mary  Anne  Ellis  Carter  had  issue  as 
follows : 

8.  Charles  Carter,  born  in  1765,  died  after  1837. 

9.  Jesse  Carter,  born  circa  1767. 

10.  Peter   Carter. 

11.  Susannah  Carter. 

12.  James  Carter.     No  further  data. 

13.  Edward  Carter,  born  circa  1775,  died  in  1832  in  Amherst. 

14.  Solomon  Carter,  died  prior  to  1837. 

15.  Mildred  Carter. 

16.  Elizabeth  Carter.    No  further  data. 

17.  John  Carter. 

8.  Charles  Carter,  born  in  1765,  and  in  1837  was  living  in 
Lincoln  county,  Kentucky.  Oct.  11,  1787,  he  was  married  in 
Bedford  county,  Va.,  to  Diana  Lambert.  In  1788  Charles  Car- 
ter and  wife,  Diana,  had  a  deed  for  land  in  Bedford  from  C. 
Lambert,  who  was  probably  the  father  or  mother  of  Diana  Lam- 
bert Carter.  In  1798  they  sold  this  land  to  John  Sled,  and  re- 
moved to  Lincoln  county,  Ky.,  where  he  owned  a  large  farm 
and  lived  in  considerable  style.  In  1896  Rev.  S.  B.  Spalding, 
a  great  grandson  of  Charles  and  Diana  Lambert  Carter,  had  the 
following  letters  from  Mr.  I.  P.  Hill,  Stanford,  Ky.,  and  Mrs. 
Maria  Griswold,  a  granddaughter  of  Charles  Carter,  about  the 
family.    Mr.  Hill  wrote : 

"I  have  your  letter  of  the  12th  Nov.,  and  will  make  it  a  point  to  see 
my  friend  Geo.  Carter  and  get  the  information  you  desire.  I  was  born 
and  raised  withn  one  mile  of  the  home  of  Col.  Charles  Carter,  and  knew 
him  well  sixty  years  ago.  He  was  an  exceedingly  dressy,  military  look- 
ing man,  then  very  old,  but  erect  and  commanding.  Wherever  he  went 
two  negro  men  accompanied  him  as  servants.  He  was  very  often  at  my 
grandfather's  when  I  was  a  boy,  and  was  an  object  of  great  reverence  and 


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affection  among  his  neighbors,  owing  to  the  fact  then  currently  reported, 
and  received  as  true,  that  he  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Revolution  and 
was  said  and  believed  to  have  been  a  Captain  in  the  Army  of  the  Revo- 
lution. He  rode  in  a  carriage  and  was  driven  by  one  servant  and  another 
rode  horseback,  dressed  in  the  most  spotless  cloth,  and  with  large  ruffles 
on  his  shirt.     On  reflection  I  can  recollect  him  sixty-five  years  age." 

Mrs.  Griswold  wrote : 

"As  regards  the  questions  you  ask  about  our  grandfather  Carter,  I 
deeply  regret  not  being  able  to  answer  all  of  them.  We  knew  but  little 
of  our  Carter  kin  personally.  A  trip  to  Lincoln  County  from  our  home 
in  those  days  was  like  a  trip  to  California  now,  and  there  was  scarcely 
any  intercourse  between  our  families.  Aunt  Pamela  (Mrs.  Bait.  Meigs) 
as  a  young  girl  spent  some  time  with  mother  (her  sister),  and  my  sister 
Isabella  visted  Lincoln  County  once.  Uncles  George  and  Peter  Carter  also 
came  to  Taylorsville  to  visit  us.  When  I  was  a  very  little  girl  Grandpa 
Charles  Carter  came  to  make  us  a  visit,  and  I  remember  him  very  well. 
I  can  see  him  now  coming  down  the  broad  stairway,  looking  like  a  prince. 
He  was  a  great,  tall  man,  with  courtly  manners.  He  had  blue  eyes  and 
white,  curly  hair.  I  know  that  grandfather  was  called  Colonel,  that  he 
was  Charles  Carter  of  Amherst  County,  Va.,  that  he  married  Diana  Lam- 
bert of  Bedford,  Va.,  and  emigrated  to  Kentucky  in  1796,  when  my  mother 
was  four  years  old.  Grandma  Carter  died  when  my  sister  Isabella  was 
eight  months  old  (about  1818). 

Colonel  Charles  and  Diana  Lambert  Carter  had  issue : 

18.  George  Carter,  born  1788  in  Virginia,  died  in  Lincoln 
county,  Ky.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  married  Mary  Spears.  In 
1837  they  had  eight  children. 

19.  Peter  E.  Carter,  born  circa  1790,  was  a  farmer.  He 
married  Anne  McFerrin,  and  in  1837  had  seven  children. — Ellis 
Book. 

20.  Caroline  Matilda  Carter,  born  Jan.  21,  1792,  died  Jan.  1, 
1852,  of  whom  later. 

21.  Catharine  Carter,  born  circa  1794. 

22.  Charles  H.  Carter,  born  circa  1804.  He  was  a  clergyman 
and  in  1837  resided  in  Philadelphia. — Ellis  Book. 

23.  Permelia  V.  Carter,  born  circa  1806,  married  Bait  Meigs, 
a  Lincoln  county  farmer,  and  in  1837  had  four  children. — Ellis 
Book. 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


20.  Caroline  Matilda  Carter,  married  near  Danville,  Lin- 
coln county,  Ky.,  June  22,  18 14,  Judge  Raphael  Lancaster,  judge  of 
probate  at  Springfield,  Ky.,  formerly  clerk  of  Spencer  county,  Ky. 

Lancaster  Excursus. 

Judge  Raphael  Lancaster,  born  April  22,  1792,  died  of  gout  on  Oct.  14, 
1852.  He  was  a  son  of  Capt.  John  and  Catharine  Miles  Lansaster,  who 
emigrated  to  Kentucky  from  Maryland  prior  to  1788.  In  1799,  1800,  '01, 
and  '02  he  represented  Washington  County  in  the  State  Legislature.  An 
interesting  adventure  of  Capt.  Lancaster  with  the  Indians  is  given  in  a 
history  of  "The  Early  Catholic  Missions  in  Kentucky,"  but  is  too  lengthy 
to  reproduce  here.  He  was  descended  from  some  of  the  leading  Catholic 
families  of  Maryland,  his  descent  being  as  follows:  "He  was  a  son  of 
Raphael  Lancaster  of  Charles  County,  Md.,  and  his  wife  Eleanor  Bradford. 
Raphael  Lancaster  was  the  son  of  a  Capt.  John  Lancaster  and  his  wife 
Elizabeth  Neale.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Raphael  Neale  of  Charles  Co., 
Md.  (son  of  Anthony  Neale),  and  Mary  Brooke,  who  was  a  daughter  of 
Hon.  Baker  Brooke  of  De  La  Brooke  Manor,  St.  Mary's  County,  Md.  (son 
of  Gov.  Robert  Brooke)  and  Anne  Calvert,  daughter  of  Gov.  Leonard 
Calvert,  first  governor  of  Maryland,  who  was  the  second  son  of  Lord  Balti- 
more. Ellenor  Bradford  (supra)  was  daughter  of  John  Bradford  of 
Prince  George  County,  Md.  (son  of  Col.  John;  son  of  John),  and  Anne 
Darnell,  daughter  of  Henry  (son  of  Dep.  Gov.  Henry  Darnell)  and  Anne 
Digges,  daughter  of  Dep.  Gov.  William  Digges  of  Maryland,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Gov.  Edward  Digges  of  Virginia  (i6s5-'58)." 

Judge  Raphael  and  Caroline  M.  Carter  Lancaster  were  the 
parents  of  four  children : 

24.  Isabella  Lancaster,  born  circa  1815,  married  Samuel 
Spalding  and  has  descendants  at  Lebanon,  Ky.  One  son  was 
Rev.  S.  B.  Spalding.     No  other  data. 

25.  Catharine  Lancaster,  d.  s.  p. 

26.  Joseph  Lancaster,  d.  s.  p. 

27.  Maria  Mosby  Lancaster,  born  Aug.  22,  1820,  at  Spring- 
field, Ky. ;  June  22,  1842,  married  at  Springfield  William  Dickin- 
son Griswold,  of  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  formerly  of  Vermont.  They 
lived  at  Terre  Haute  until  1872,  when  they  removed  to  St.  Louis, 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  233 

where  Mr.  Griswold  died,  March  30,  1896.  He  was  born  March 
6,  181 5,  at  Benson,  Vt.,  and  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Edward 
Griswold,  first  of  his  name  in  Connecticut  (1636),  and  of  John 
Alden  and  Priscilla  Mullins,  whose  wooing  was  made  famous  by 
Longfellow.  After  graduating  from  Middlebury  College  he  went 
to  Indiana  and  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Terra  Haute,  and 
later  became  the  partner  of  Judge  Usher,  Secretary  of  the  In- 
terior under  President  Lincoln.  He  left  his  practice  to  become 
the  president  of  the  Evansville,  Ind.,  and  Crawfordsville,  Ky., 
R.  R.,  and  afterwards  president  of  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  R. 
R.  Mrs.  Griswold  died  at  her  summer  home  at  Castleton,  Vt., 
Sept.  20,  1904.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Griswold  were  the  parents  of  three 
children. 

28.  Joseph  Lancaster  Griswold,  born  in  1844,  married  Emily 
Adae  and  has  one  daughter,  Ellen  Griswold,  now  living  in  Cin- 
cinnati. 

29.  Caroline  Griswold.  d.  s.  p. 

30.  Laura  Isabella  Griswold,  born  July  9,  1848,  died  of 
apoplexy  at  her  summer  home  at  Castleton,  Vt.,  Aug.  9,  1904. 
She  was  educated  at  Eastern  schools,  and  on  the  18th  of  Nov., 
1871,  married  at  Terre  Haute,  Huntington  Smith,  U.  S.  N. ; 
who  was  graduated  from  Annapolis  in  1867  and  served  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  until  1872,  when  he  resigned  and  went  to  live  in  St. 
Louis.  He  was  born  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  March  15,  1847,  and 
died  at  Castleton,  Vt.,  Oct.  31,  1907,  and  was  the  son  of  Hon. 
Hamilton  Smith,  of  Kentucky,  and  his  wife,  Louise  E.  Rudd, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Christopher  A.  Rudd,  and  his  wife,  Ann  Benoist 
Palmer,  of  Prince  George  county,  Md.  Hon.  Hamilton  Smith 
was  born  at  Durham,  N.  H.,  where  his  ancestors  had  resided 
since  the  first  settlement  in  Xew  England,  and  he  numbers  among 
them  Governor  John  Winthrop,  first  Governor  of  Massachusetts, 
and  Thomas  Dudley,  the  second  Governor.  Louise  Rudd  Smith 
came  of  a  long  line  of  distinguished  Maryland  ancestry,  number- 
ing among  others,  Robert  Brooke,  Governor  of  Marvland  in 
1652,  and  Deputy  Governor  Nicholas  Sewall. 


234       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Huntington  and  Laura  Isabella  Griswold  Smith  had  issue  four 
sons:  a.  William  Dickinson  Griswold  Smith,  born  18th  of  June, 
1873,  of  "Glenbrook,"  Castleton,  Vt.  b.  Hamilton  Smith,  third, 
born  Aug.  6,  1875,  of  "Glenmore,"  near  Brandy  Station,  Cul- 
peper  county,  Va.  He  is  married  and  has  issue:  Louise  Hunt- 
ington, Virginia  Lancaster  and  Hamilton  fourth,  c.  Ralph  Lan- 
caster Smith,  born  April  13,  1880.  d.  Huntington  Smith,  Jr., 
born  July  3,  1885. 

9.  Jesse  Carter,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary  Anne  Ellis  Carter, 
married  Frances  Lucas  and  had  issue  five  children,  all  of  whom 
married  and  lived  in  Lincoln  county,  Ky.     They  were : 

Mary  Carter,  married  James  Cooper,  a  Lincoln  county  farmer, 
prior  to  1837. 

Elizabeth  Carter,  married  Ellis  Brown,  a  Lincoln  county 
farmer,  prior  to   1837. 

Lucinda  Carter,  married  Tilgham  Hocker,  a  Lincoln  county 
farmer,  prior  to  1837. 

Malinda  Carter,  married  John  Houston,  a  Lincoln  county 
farmer,  prior  to  1837. 

Richard  Carter,  married  a  Miss  Hocker,  of  Lincoln  county,  Ky., 
prior  to  1837. 

10.  Peter  Carter,  was  married  three  times,  and  was  living  in 
1837,  but  the  Ellis  book  does  not  say  where.  He  married,  first, 
Delphia  Sandridge,  and  had  a  son,  Larkin,  who  emigrated  to 
Missouri  and  died  prior  to  1849.  Second,  Anne  Martin,  and  had 
issue :  Peter  Walton,  Charles,  Job  and  John,  whose  will,  probated 
in  Amherst,  July  15,  1833,  mentions  his  wife,  Creasy,  and  chil- 
dren— Mary  N.,  Martha,  Jacob  D.,  Shedrack,  William  C,  Eliza- 
beth A.,  Nancy  A.,  Lucy  F.,  Sarah  Anne,  Peter  D.,  Verjane, 
James  R.  and  Caroline  M.  Carter.  Peter  Carter  married,  third, 
Elizabeth  Hamilton,  and  had  issue  seven  sons  and  a  daughter, 
none  of  whom  are  named  by  Mr.  Ellis  in  his  book. 

11.  Susannah  Carter,  married  William  Lawless  and  had 
several  children.  The  entire  family  removed  soon  after  1800 
to  Indiana. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  235 

13.  Edward  Carter,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary  Anne  Carter, 
married  Anne  Wright,  and  died  in  Amherst  in  1832.  His  will, 
probated  May  21,  1832,  left  his  estate  to  the  following  grand- 
children :  Garnet,  Granville,  Mary,  Thomas,  Powhatan  and 
Frances  Layne ;  and  Anne  Cashwell  (daughter)  wife  of  James 
Cashwell. 

14.  Solomon  Carter,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary  Anne,  married 
Anne  Carter  and  died  prior  to  1837.  They  had  five  or  six 
children,  all  of  whom  married,  but  names  not  given  by  Mr.  Ellis. 

15.  Mildred  Carter,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Mary  Anne,  mar- 
ried James  Tankersley,  and  had  a  son,  James,  and  a  daughter, 
who  married  a  Mr.  Hocker.    All  moved  to  Missouri  before  1837. 

17.  John  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Peter  and  Mary  Anne  Car- 
ter, married  Gemima  Goff  and  moved  to  Missouri  about  1814. 
No  other  data. 

4.  George  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Peter  and  Judith  Carter, 
of  Fauquier,  born  March  15,  1757,  was  living  in  that  county 
with  his  father  in  1782.  He  married  and  had  at  least  one  son, 
George  Carter,  Jr.,  George  Carter,  Sr.,  probably  died  intestate 
and  his  son  probably  removed  from  Fauquier,  as  the  will  of 
neither  one  is  of  record  in  that  county.  The  George  Carter  who 
died  in  1829,  mentioned  in  my  notes  in  The  William  &  Mary 
Quarterly,  I  have  found  to  belong  to  another  branch  of  the 
family.  Little  as  we  know  about  him,  the  old  Carter  Prayer  Book 
seems  to  have  descended  in  the  family  of  George  Carter,  son  of 
Peter. 

The  latest  records  in  the  book  show  that  Peter  Carter  at  that 
time  was  its  owner.  Of  its  ownership  and  whereabouts  from  that 
date  until  191 1  I  have  the  following:  In  185 1  a  Mr.  John  Payne, 
of  Fauquier,  married  as  his  second  wife  Elizabeth  Carter,  daugh- 
ter of  George  Carter — presumably  of  Fauquier — and  removed  to 
California  before  the  war.  Here  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter  Payne 
died  without  surviving  issue,  and  her  personal  effects  later  be- 
came the  property  of  her  stepdaughter,  Mary  Payne,  who  married 
Mr.  John  Scarlett  Smith.     A  friend  of  Mrs.  Smith's  who  had 


236  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

seen  the  old  Prayer  Book  saw  my  genealogy  of  the  Carter  family 
in  The  William  &  Mary  Quarterly  and  told  her  about  it. 
Mrs.  Smith  wrote  me  about  the  book,  and  I  was  able  to  purchase 
this  valuable  old  Carter  record  from  her,  together  with  three 
other  books  bearing  the  names  of  Edward  Dale,  Thomas  Carter 
and  other  members  of  the  Carter  family  on  their  fly-leaves.  They 
had  doubtless  been  preserved  as  curiosities. 

The  fact  that  Mr.  Payne  and  Elizabeth  Carter  were  married  in 
185 1  would  indicate  that  she  was  a  granddaughter  instead  of 
a  daughter  of  George  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Peter  and  Judith 
Carter.  Mrs.  Smith  knows  of  no  brothers  or  sisters  of  her 
stepmother. 

The  Southwest  Virginia  Carters. 

Between  the  years  1772  and  1795  the  following  Carters  settled 
in  that  section  of  Southwest  Virginia  now  comprised  almost  en- 
tirely in  the  county  of  Scott :  Thomas,  Joseph  and  Norris  Carter, 
sons  of  Peter  Carter,  of  Fauquier ;  Dale,  John  and  Charles  Carter, 
sons  of  Charles  Carter,  of  Amherst,  brother  of  Peter  of  Fau- 
quier ;  John  Carter  and  sons,  John  and  Landon,  supposed  to 
belong  to  the  "King"  Carter  family,  but  not  found  on  the  chart 
of  that  family ;  and  a  Joseph  and  John  Carter,  who  came  direct 
from  England.  Many  of  their  descendants  have  intermarried, 
until  some  of  the  present  generation  are  descended  from  four 
of  the  original  emigrants.  Few  of  the  older  generations  kept 
family  records,  many  of  them  left  no  wills,  so  that  the  proper 
assorting  and  classifying  of  their  numerous  descendants  has 
presented  a  genealogical  problem,  beside  which  the  solution  of 
the  famous  Chinese  Puzzle  would  seem  easy.  Fortunately,  the 
late  Hon.  Joseph  H.  Carter  (born  in  1820),  a  grandson  of  one 
of  the  emigrants,  a  few  years  ago  dictated  a  chart  of  the  Carters 
of  Scott  to  his  grandson-in-law,  Mr.  I.  C.  Coley,  of  Gate  City, 
who  has  kindly  furnished  me  with  a  copy,  as  well  as  with  other 
data  gleaned  from  the  old  graveyards,  county  and  private  records, 
etc. 

The  descendants  of  Peter  Carter  in  Southwest  Virginia  have 
represented  their  section  in  four  of  the  seven  Constitutional  Con- 


Hon.   Dale  Carter, 
Russell    County,   Va. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  237 

ventions  of  Virginia,  beginning  with  the  second  one  in  1788,  and 
seven  of  them  have  been  members  of  the  State  legislature.  In 
the  local  affairs  of  their  county  they  have  frequently  been  sheriffs, 
county  clerks,  etc. 

Thomas  Carter  and  His  Descendants. 

Thomas  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Peter  and  Judith  Norris  Carter, 
of  Fauquier,  born  April  24,  1731,  died  in  Rye  Cove,  then  in 
Russell  county,  in  1803.    Was  married  probably  about  1755-1765 

to  Elizabeth  .      She  may  have  been  a  Morgan,   as 

they  had  a  son  named  Morgan,  and  a  grandson  named  Thomas 
Morgan.  In  1773  Thomas  Carter  removed  his  family  to  Rye 
Cove,  near  Clinch  River,  in  what  is  now  Scott  county,  but  then 
in  Fincastle.  March  24,  1774,  he  had  a  grant  for  197  acres  of 
land  in  this  Cove,  and  on  March  31,  1783,  a  grant  for  1,420 
acres,  to  include  his  improvements.  When  Fincastle  was  abol- 
ished in  1776  his  home  fell  in  the  new  county  of  Washington, 
and  from  1776  till  1784  he  was  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  roads 
in  that  county,  and  when  Rye  Cove  fell  in  the  new  county  of 
Russell  he  was  a  justice  of  the  first  court,  May  9,  1780,  and  a 
lieutenant  in  the  militia.  In  1788  he  represented  Russell  in  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  that  year ;  and  is  said  to  have  been 
a  member  of  the  legislature  several  times  subsequently.  His  will 
was  probated  in  Russell,  Oct.  25,  1803,  and  left  a  third  of  his 
entire  estate  to  wife,  Elizabeth.  Son  Charles  to  have  two-thirds 
of  the  remaining  two-thirds  of  his  slaves  and  other  personalty, 
and  daughter,  Rosamond  Dickenson,  the  remainder.  Sons  John 
and  Morgan,  and  daughters,  Phoeby  Jones  and  Sarah  Taylor, 
had  already  had  their  portions.  Grandson,  Thomas  Morgan 
Carter,  to  have  1,300  acres  of  the  home  place.  I  have  but  little 
data  of  the  descendants  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Carter.  Sarah 
Carter  married,  first,  a  Pennington,  who  died  about  1802,  and  in 
1803  she  married  James  Taylor,  by  whom  she  had  several  chil- 
dren, among  others  a  daughter,  Sarah,  who  married  Elijah  Car- 
ter, a  grandson  of  Thomas  Carter's  brother,  Joseph.  She  also 
had  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  married  a  Wood,  and  had  a 
daughter,  Mary  Wood,  who  married  Charles  M.  Carter,  a  great 


238       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

grandson  of  Thomas  Carter's  brothers,  Joseph  and  Norris  Carter. 
John  Carter,  died  unmarried  in  1804  and  by  his  will  left  freedom 
to  three  negro  servants  and  their  children,  and  gave  the  rest 
of  his  estate  to  his  sister,  Sarah. 

Morgan  Carter,  together  with  his  cousin,  Elijah  Carter,  was 
captured  by  the  Indians  and  carried  to  Western  New  York. 
After  about  eighteen  months  captivity  they  escaped  and  made 
their  way  back  to  Virginia.  Morgan  Carter  died  in  1809  inte- 
state, leaving  wife,  Ursula,  and  probably  a  family  of  children. 
Thomas  Morgan  Carter  probably  was  the  son  of  a  son  of  Thomas 
Carter,  who  died  prior  to  his  father.  He  had  a  wife  named 
Matilda  and  died  about  1828,  and  is  said  to  have  left  a  son, 
William,  and  two  or  three  others. 

Joseph  Carter  and  His  Descendants. 

Joseph  Carter,  third  son  of  Peter  and  Judith  Carter,  of  Fau- 
quier, born  Sept.  4,  1736,  seems  to  have  had  a  survey  of  land 
in  Rye  Cove  about  the  time  his  brother,  Thomas,  settled  there, 
but  which  he  abandoned  until  March  1,  1783,  when  he  had  a 
survey  for  200  acres  to  contain  his  old  improvements.  To  this 
he  added  320  acres  in  1795  and  200  acres  more  in  1799.  He  is 
said  to  have  been  a  private  in  the  Revolution.  His  wife  was 
Elizabeth  Presley,  a  half-sister  to  his  brother  Norris  Carter's 
wife,  Agnes  Allen.  They  are  buried  in  Rye  Cove  in  the  old 
Carter  graveyard,  and  the  graves  marked  by  a  stone.  Joseph 
Carter's  will,  probated  in  Russell,  Aug.  1,  1809,  left  his  entire 
estate  to  wife  for  life,  after  which  sons  Thomas  and  Presley 
were  to  have  the  home  plantation ;  his  servants  to  go  to  such 
of  his  children  as  were  willing  to  retain  them  in  slavery — evi- 
dently some  of  his  children  had  manumission  ideas.  Residue  to 
be  divided  equally  among  all  his  children,  none  of  whom  were 
to  be  charged  with  what  he  had  previously  given  them.  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  Presley  Carter  had  issue : 

31.  Elijah  Carter. 

32.  Thomas  Carter. 

33.  Presley  Carter. 

34.  Anne  Carter. 


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35.  Mima  Carter. 

36.  Judith  Carter. 

31.  Elijah  Carter,  after  his  return  from  captivity  among  the 
Indians,  married  and  settled  down  in  Rye  Cove.  Aug.  19,  1801, 
he  purchased  200  acres  of  land  from  his  father,  and  on  the  next 
day  70  acres  from  Thomas  Carter.  March  19,  1813,  Elijah  Car- 
ter and  wife,  Anne,  sold  to  brother,  Thomas  Carter,  196  acres 
of  land  formerly  belonging  to  their  father.  He  had  issue  an 
only  son,  Allen  Carter,  who  removed  to  Texas  in  1818,  then  a 
few  years  later  to  Arkansas  and  finally  back  to  Texas,  where 
he  died  leaving  a  large  family,  of  whom  I  have  no  further  data. 

32.  Thomas  Carter,  born  in  1782,  was  married  about 
1806  to  his  first  cousin,  Judith  Carter,  daughter  of  Norris  Carter. 
She  was  born  in  1782  and  died  in  1851.  Both  of  them  are 
buried  in  the  old  Carter  graveyard  in  Rye  Cove,  and  their  graves 
marked.  Thomas  Carter  was  a  constable  of  Scott  county  in 
1823  and  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in  the  126th  Regiment,  Vir- 
ginia Militia  on  June  13,  1823.    They  had  issue : 

(1).  Matilda,  born  1807,  d.  s.  p. 

(2).  Anne,  born  1809,  d.  s.  p. 

(3).  William  A.,  born  181 1,  d.  s.  p.  He  was  in  the  48th 
Virginia,  C.  S.  A. 

(4).  Joseph,  born  1813,  d.  s.  p. 

(5).  Presley,  born  181 5,  died  1900. 

(6).  Samuel,  born  1817,  died  1854. 

(7).  Polly,  born  1826,  died  1866. 

(5).  Presley  Carter,  farmer,  married  circa  1864  Mrs.  Polly 
Horton,  nee  Collier,  and  had  issue : 

a.  Minerva,  born  1865.  b.  Judith,  born  1867,  married  Jos. 
Fields,     c.  Miles,  born  1870.     d.  Emmet  M.,  born  1874. 

d.  Emmet  M.  Carter  is  a  lawyer,  and  represented  Scott  County 
in  the  Virginia  Legislature  in  i890-'94.  In  1902  he  was  married 
to  Eura  DeBusk,  a  great,  great,  great  granddaughter  of  Norris 
Carter,  and  has  issue, Roland,  Judson  and  Herbert. 

(6).  Samuel  Carter,  farmer,  born  1807,  died  1854,  married  a 
Miss  Horton  and  had  issue :  a.  Cowan  W.     b.  Patton.  c.  Charles 


240 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


M.  d.  Florence,  married  John  Davidson  and  removed  to  Kansas, 
a.  Cowan  W.  Carter,  farmer,  was  sheriff  of  Scott  county  1899- 
1903.  He  married  Ellen  Gillenwater  and  had  issue:  Flora,  Ellen, 
d.  s.  p.;  Rebecca,  married  Asbury  Carter  (descendant  of  Norris) 
and  has  daughter,  Mary  Ellen ;  Samuel,  married  and  has  son, 
Samuel,  Jr. ;  Molly,  married  David  Sargent  and  has  son,  David, 
Jr. ;  and  Ezra  Thomas  Carter,  a  lawyer  at  Gate  City,  Va.,  who, 
September  9,  191 1,  received  the  nomination  for  the  State  Senate 
from  the  Democrats  of  the  First  Senatorial  District  "by  acclama- 
tion" and  accepted  the  nomination  in  a  strong  speech,  which  sent 
the  delegates  home  determined  to  send  a  Democrat  to  the  next 
General  Assembly  in  place  of  Senator  Noel."  "Great  enthusiasm 
prevails  here  tonight  as  a  result  of  the  nomination  at  Big  Stone 
Gap  today  of  Ezra  T.  Carter  of  Gate  City,  as  the  Democratic  can- 
didate for  State  Senator.  Mr.  Carter  is  a  brilliant  young  lawyer, 
an  orator  of  wondrous  power,  a  Christian  gentleman  and  a  man 
popular  with  all.  He  has  always  stood  for  high,  clean  politics 
and  has  the  confidence  of  Republicans  as  well  as  Democrats.  He 
is  a  near  relative  of  Hon.  Henry  C.  Stuart." 

b.  Patton  Carter,  married  Fanny  Carter  and  has  issue:  Sarah, 
Eliza  and  Molly,  who  married  Enoch  Fields. 

c.  Charles  M.  Carter  was  clerk  of  Scott  County  1887-1894.  He 
married  first  Mary  Wood,  thus  uniting  in  their  children  the  blood 
of  the  three  brothers — Thomas,  Joseph  and  Norris  Carter;  mar- 
ried second,  Alice  Cox.  Issue:  1st.  mar.  James  W.  Carter,  a 
banker,  married  Loula  Godsey  and  has  daughter,  Willie  Sue ; 
Julia,  married  Noah  Medley;  and  Charles  C,  farmer,  married 
Louise  Moore.  2nd.  mar.  Mary  Cecil,  and  Clinton,  all  unmar- 
ried. 

(7)  Polly  Carter,  born  1826,  died  1866,  married  Milton  Carter 
and  had  issue :  a.  Virginia,  b.  Mary.  c.  Emily,  d.  Jackson,  e. 
Mourning,     f.  Milton  L.     g.  Marion,     h.  Martha 

a.  Virginia  Carter  married  Wm.  Stewart  and  had  a  daughter, 
Laura,  who  married  W.  W.  Ramey,  present  treasurer  of  Scott 
County.     They  have  daughters,  Anna,  Mittie  and  Jennie. 

b.  Mary  Carter  married  Joseph  Starnes  and  has  Frank,  Polly, 
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c.  Emily  Carter,  married  "Doc"  Starnes. 

d.  Jackson  Carter  married  Mrs.  Phoeby  Carter,  nee  Cox,  and 
has  son,  Mosco. 

e.  Mourning  Carter  married  Emory  Carter,  a  distant  cousin, 
g.  Marion  Carter  married  Virginia  Starnes. 

33.  Presley  Carter,  farmer,  born  circa  1784,  died  1844,  son  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Presley  Carter,  married  in  1806  Elizabeth 
Porter,  the  step-daughter  of  his  cousin  Dale  Carter,  and  had  issue : 

(1).  George,  born  1807. 
(2).  Elijah,  born  1809,  died  1900. 
(3).  Allen  J.,  born  1812. 
(4).  Katharine,  born  1812. 
(5).  Thomas,  born  18 17. 
(6).  Anna,  born  1818. 
(7).  Joseph  H.,  born  1820,  died  1909. 
(8).  James,  born  1822. 
(9).  Eliza,  born  1837. 

( 1 ) .  George  Carter,  married  and  removed  to  Kentucky,  where 
he  had  issue :  Thomas,  Jesse,  Wayne,  Presley,  George  and  Anna. 

(2).  Elijah  Carter,  married  Sarah  Taylor,  a  granddaughter  of 
the  emigrant  Thomas  Carter,  and  had  issue :  a.  Van  Buren.  b. 
Monroe,  removed  to  Texas,  c.  Hershall.  d.  Emory,  e.  Eliza- 
beth, married  Samuel  Rose  and  removed  to  Kentucky,  f.  Sally, 
married  Charles  Green,     g.  Rosa.     h.  Polly. 

a.  Van  Buren  Carter  married  and  had  issue :  George,  Van 
Buren,  Jr.,  Joseph,  Elijah  and  Mary.     No  further  data. 

c.  Hershall  Carter,  married  Phoeby  Cox,  and  had  son,  Worley, 
born  1876. 

d.  Emory  Carter,  married  his  first  cousin,  Mourning  Carter,  and 
had  issue :  Alice,  married  Jesse  Stone ;  Polly.  He  married  second 
Frances  Dorton  and  had  sons,  Hershel  and  Lloyd. 

g.  Rosa  Carter  married  George  R.  Dove  of  Bristol,  and  had : 
Mima,  married  a  Mr.  White ;  Maud,  married  Charles  Leonard ; 
Hershell,  editor  of  the  Bristol  Herald-Courier ;  and  John. 

h.  Polly  Carter,  married  Moses  Riggs  and  had  Charles  and 
Rosa. 


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GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


(3).  Allen  J.  Carter  married  and  had :  Anna,  married  a  Jackson, 
b.  Jackson,  born  about  1843,  nas  a  son>  James,  c.  David  M.  d. 
Presley,  e.  Floyd,  f.  Nancy,  married  a  Harris,  g.  Sarena, 
married  a  Harris,     h.  Maggie,     i.  Lou. 

c.  David  M.  Carter  married  a  Miss  Jackson  and  had  son,  J.  D. 
Carter,  who  married  Sally  Richmond  and  had  Bonnie,  J.  D.,  Jr., 
Charmie  and  Robert  M.  He  then  married  a  Miss  Fraley  and  had 
Floyd,  Boyd  and  Shirley. 

d.  Presley  Carter  married  Sally  Wilkinson  and  had  Maggie  and 
Othello.     All  live  in  Texas. 

e.  Floyd  Carter,  born  1855,  died  1905,  married  Nancy  Dishner 
and  had  Grover,  Samuel,  Presley  and  Maggie. 

(7).  Joseph  H.  Carter,  farmer,  born  in  1820,  died  in  1909,  was 
a  private  in  the  25th  Va.  Cav.  C.  S.  A. ;  and  after  the  war  he  repre- 
sented Scott  and  Lee  counties  in  the  State  Legislature.  In  1844 
he  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Pennington,  and  had  issue : 

a.  Presley  Gilbert,  born  1845,  died  1908. 

b.  Rachel,  born  1846. 

c.  Zion  Pennington. 

d.  Catherine. 

e.  Hannah,  born  1850,  died  1909. 

f.  Martha. 

g.  Emma, 
h.  Amanda, 
i.  Ella. 

a.  Presley  Gilbert,  farmer,  married  Margaret  Cameron,  and 
had  :  Joseph,  born  in  1874 ;  Elizabeth  ;  James  ;  Mary,  Roger  Mills  ; 
Thomas  ;  Joshua  and  Lakie.     They  all  live  at  Kingston,  Texas. 

b.  Rachel  Carter  married  John  Wolfenbarger,  farmer,  born 
1834,  died  1909,  and  had  issue:  Emmet,  farmer,  not  married; 
Kate,  born  1870,  married  J.  A.  Counts,  a  jeweler,  and  has  Roy, 
Nellie  and  Edgar ;  Cora,  married  I.  C.  Coley,  a  teacher,  and  has 
sons,  Edmund  Randolph,  Lew  Kennedy  and  John  Palmer ;  Joseph, 
born  1874,  married  Laura  Johnson  and  has  Mamie,  Frank,  Kyle 
and  Rufus ;  Lou,  born  1877,  married  J.  D.  Franklin,  a  farmer,  and 
has  Lizzie,  Mary  and  Benjamin;  Benjamin,  born  1879,  unmarried; 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  243 

Randolph  Carter,  born  1885,  unmarried;  Venus,  born  1888,  un- 
married. 

c.  Zion  Pennington  Carter,  farmer,  though  but  a  young  boy 
when  the  war  began,  he  was  in  the  "State  Line  Service"  of  the 
Confederacy.  He  married  Nancy  Gillenwater  and  had  issue : 
Henry,  born  1869,  farmer,  married  Martha  Duncan  and  had  Brad- 
ley, Rhea,  Kelly  and  Horton  ;  Susan,  born  1872,  married  Rev.  J.  B. 
Craft,  Baptist  State  Evangelist,  and  has  a  daughter,  Rachel ;  John 
Mosby,  born  1880,  married  Ellen  Boatwright,  and  has  Howard, 
Nannie,  Reba  and  Joseph  H. ;  Maude,  married  Samuel  Buchanan, 
a  pharmacist. 

(L  Catharine  Carter,  born  1849,  died  1907,  married  Rev.  M.  B. 
Quillin  and  had  issue:  Milligan,  married  Sally  Tate;  Rightly,  died 
in  1905,  leaving  two  children,  Mamie  and  Broaddus. 

e.  Hannah  Carter,  born  1850,  died  1909,  married  James  Jones 
and  had  Kate,  married  Aleck  Poston  and  had  James,  Elizabeth, 
Archie  and  Wilmer;  Betty,  born  1879,  married  Roscoe  Stair,  and 
had  Hannah,  Holdnay,  Clara. 

fV  Martha  Carter  married  Simpson  Wolfenbarger,  and  had  is- 
sue :  Joseph,  now  in  Kansas ;  Harry,  in  Kansas ;  Peter,  d.  s.  p. ; 
Elizabeth,  now  in  Texas ;  Mary,  married  Wm.  Spencer. 

g.  Emma  Carter,  married  W.  D.  Davidson  and  had  issue :  Cora, 
who  married  W.  A.  S.  Lee,  merchant,  and  had  issue:  W.  A.  S., 
Jr.,  and  Edward,  Gilimette  and  O'Ferrall. 

(8).  James  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Presley  and  Judith  Carter, 
married  Eliza  Horton  and  had  issue  : 

a.  Presley,  d.  s.  p. 

b.  Hickory,  no  data. 

c.  Sally. 

d.  Fanny. 

e.  Nancy. 

f.  Roseland. 

g.  Rebecca. 

c.  Sally  Carter,  married  Jefferson  Dillon  and  had  issue :  James, 
Benjamin,  married  a  Miss  Chesser;  Ellen,  married  Daniel  Lit- 
trell ;  Amanda,  married  Benton  Shepherd. 

d.  Fanny  Carter,  married  Patton  Carter — see  supra. 


244       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

e.  Nancy  Carter,  married  R.  E.  Jennings,  of  Duffield,  Va.,  and 
had  issue :  Charles,  Dora,  Lilly,  Venice,  Burley,  Kyle  and  two  or 
three  others. 

f.  Roseland  Carter,  married  Jeremiah  Moseley  and  had  issue: 
Emily  and  Hickory. 

g.  Rebecca,  married  Thomas  Pannell  and  had  issue :  Edward 
and  several  others,  whose  names  I  do  not  know. 

(9).  Eliza  Carter,  born  in  1837,  youngest  child  of  Presley  and 
Judith  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Southard  and  removed  to  Kentucky. 
About  1908  she  was  still  living  at  London,  Ky. 

Norris  Carter  and  His  Descendants. 

Norris  Carter,  the  younger  of  the  three  sons  of  Peter  and 
Judith  Carter  of  Fauquier,  who  settled  on  Clinch,  seems  to  have 
gone  there  at  a  later  date  than  his  brothers  Thomas  and  Joseph. 
He  seems  to  have  purchased  a  farm  in  Rye  Cove,  but  the  Wash- 
ington records,  which  are  not  complete,  fail  to  show  record  of 
same.  In  1793  he  had  a  small  grant  of  land  and  in  1805  he  pur- 
chased a  part  of  a  large  tract  that  had  been  granted  to  his  cousin, 
John  Carter,  in  1783.  Norris  Carter,  born  Nov.  8,  1748,  was 
married  about  ijjo-ji  to  Agnes  Allen,  a  half-sister  of  his  brother 
Joseph  Carter's  wife.  He  made  his  will  June  7,  181 6,  which  was 
probated  Aug.  13,  1816;  in  which  he  gave  to  wife,  Agnes  Carter, 
his  entire  estate,  both  real  and  personal,  for  the  remainder  of  her 
life,  "it  being  my  intention  to  give  my  said  wife  a  fund  sufficient 
for  her  comfortable  maintenance  during  life  out  of  its  increase  or 
profits,  which  I  intend  she  shall  use  for  that  purpose."  After 
death  of  his  wife  he  desired  that  his  granddaughter,  Jemima  Car- 
ter, eldest  daughter  of  his  daughter  Molly,  should  have  "all  my 
lands,  building  and  household  furniture  lying  below  the  big  branch 
running  through  the  plantation  whereon  I  now  live."  And  son 
Henry  to  have  the  remainder  of  the  plantation. 

Norris  and  Agnes  Allen  Carter  had  issue  six  sons  and  two 
daughters : 

37.  Dale,  born  1772,  died  1847. 

38.  John,  born  1774,  died  1836. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  245 

39.  Chas.  Burr,  born  1776. 

40.  Williamson,  born  1777. 

41.  Henry,  born  1779,  died  1872. 

42.  Judith,  born  1782,  died  185 1. 

43.  Peter,  born  1784. 
44.Molly,  born  1786,  died  1842. 

37.  Dale  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Norris  and  Agnes  Carter,  had 
a  grant  for  65  acres  on  Copper  Creek,  Russell  County,  June  1, 
1796;  Nov.  16,  1804,  he  purchased  186  acres  known  as  "Camp 
Spring  Place,"  from  Wm.  Nash,  of  Sullivan  county,  Tenn.  Prior 
to  Oct.  7,  1806  (deed)  Dale  Carter  was  married  to  Mrs.  Catherine 
Porter,  who  had  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  whom  he  adopted.  He 
made  his  will  Aug.  6,  1847,  and  named  sons  Dale  W.  and  Thomas 
W.  as  executors.  He  gave  wife  Catharine  a  third  of  his  estate, 
and  the  remainder  to  be  divided  equally  between  his  children, 
named  as  follows:  Polly  Stewart,  Jane  Legg,  Agnes  Mitchell, 
Anne  Stewart,  Margaret  Travis,  Katherine  West,  John  Carter, 
d.  s.  p.,  Norris  Carter,  d.  s.  p.,  Dale  W.  Carter,  Thomas  W.  Carter 
and  adopted  daughter  Elizabeth  Carter  (she  had  married  his 
cousin,  Presley  Carter). 

Dale  W.  Carter,  farmer  in  Scott,  married  and  had  issue :  Dale, 
who  had  sons  Elbert  and  Frederick ;  Norris,  d.  s.  p. ;  John,  d.  s.  p. ; 
Thomas,  who  was  the  father  of  Catharine ;  Mary  married  a 
Thompson ;  William  and  Elizabeth.  Thomas  W.  Carter,  farmer, 
was  sheriff  of  Scott  i846-'5o.  No  data  of  his  descendants  or  of 
other  descendants  of  Dale  Carter,  Sr. 

38.  John  Carter,  2nd.,  son  of  Norris  and  Agnes  Carter,  had  a 
grant  for  400  acres  of  land  Oct.  2,  1798;  purchased  120  acres  on 
southside  of  Clinch  from  Thos.  and  Rebecca  Eastland  on  October 
5,  1807;  200  acres  on  the  southside  of  Clinch  from  Jos.  and  Sarah 
Whiteley  on  Dec.  16,  1808;  58  acres  from  David  Cock,  Sr.,  on 
March  1,  1813 ;  and  Jan.  25,  1815,  10  acres  from  Samuel  Ewing. 
John  Carter  and  wife  Sarah  sold  land  as  follows :  Jan.  3,  1803,  to 
Joseph  Carter  75  acres;  June  17,  1809,  to  Wm.  Cock  130  acres; 
Feb.  20,  1810,  to  Isaiah  Solyers  120  acres.  John  Carter  was  mar- 
ried first  prior  to  1803  to  Sarah  Frazier,  who  died  in  i823~'24;  he 


246       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

then  married  Mrs.  Molly  Neil,  nee  Roller.  She  had  a  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Neil,  who  married  James  P.  Carter,  son  of  John  and 
Sarah,  and  a  sister  of  Ruth  Roller,  who  married  George  Carter, 
another  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Carter.  John  Carter  made  his  will 
June  15,  1836,  and  gave  a  third  of  his  estate  to  his  wife  and  various 
legacies  to  all  his  children — sons  Elihu  Embrie  and  John  Trigg, 
being  then  under  age.  He  had  issue  as  follows : 
First  marriage : 

45.  Dale,  born  Oct.  14,  1802,  died  Dec.  20,  1878. 

46.  George,  born  1804,  died  in  1888. 

47.  Chas.  Randolph,  born  1806,  died  1853. 

48.  Henry,  born  1808,  died  1879. 

49.  Joseph,  born  1810,  died  1880. 

50.  James  P.,  born  1812,  died  1897. 

51.  Frazier,  born  1814,  died  1852. 

52.  Elihu  Embrie,  born  1816. 

53.  John  Trigg,  born  1818. 

54.  Davidson. 

55.  Polly. 

56.  Nancy. 
Second  marriage : 

57.  Allen  T.,  born  1828,  died  1862. 

58.  Sally,  born  1830. 

45.  Dale  Carter,  born  Oct.  14,  1802,  died  at  his  home  in  Rus- 
sell county,  "Carter  Place,"  Dec.  30,  1778.  He  was  the  wealthiest 
and  most  prominent  of  the  Southwest  Virginia  Carters,  his  suc- 
cess being  entirely  due  to  his  own  efforts,  as  he  left  home  quite 
early  in  life  to  make  his  own  way.  He  studied  law,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Russell  county,  and  soon  became  one  of  the  most 
prominent  lawyers  in  Southwest  Virginia. 

He  represented  Russell  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1 85 1,  and  was  elected  from  this  county  to  the  first  session  of  the 
legislature  after  the  war.  He  was  one  of  the  committee  sent  by 
this  assembly  to  Washington  to  confer  with  President  Johnson 
about  the  reconstruction  of  the  State  government.  Hon.  Dale 
Carter  owned  an  immense  area  of  land  in  southwestern  Virginia 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  247 

— said  to  be  greater  in  extent  than  the  entire  State  of  Delaware. 
Some  sixty-five  thousand  acres  of  this  was  granted  to  him  by  the 
State  between  1838  and  1856.  His  personal  property  amounted 
to  about  twenty-one  thousand  dollars. 

Dec.  15,  1829,  Dale  Carter  married  Elizabeth  Campbell  Smith, 
born  Jan.  2,  1813,  died  Nov.  6,  1897,  daughter  of  Col.  Harry 
Smith,  of  "Clifton",  Russell  county,  and  his  wife  Mary  Taylor. 
Mary  Taylor  was  the  daughter  of  John  Taylor  of  Botetourt  and 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Campbell,  eldest  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mar- 
garet Campbell  of  Augusta  county,  and  sister  of  the  distinguished 
Gen.  William  Campbell,  the  hero  of  King's  Mountain,  who  mar- 
ried a  sister  of  Patrick  Henry.  Charles  Campbell  (died  1767) 
of  Augusta  is  said  to  have  been  a  son  of  Patrick  Campbell  who 
came  with  his  father  John  Campbell  about  1726  to  Lancaster 
county,  then  later  to  that  part  of  Orange  that  in  1738  became  Au- 
gusta county,  Va. 

Dale  and  Elizabeth  Smith  Carter  had  issue : 

59.  Mary  Taylor,  born  June  6,  1831,  died  July  3,  1862. 

60.  Henry  Smith  Carter,  born  April  2,  1833,  died  1851,  while 
a  junior  at  Emory  and  Henry  College. 

61.  John  Taylor  Carter,  born  Jan.  18,  1837,  d.  s.  p.  in  1908. 

62.  Margaret  Crockett  Carter,  born  Aug.  2j,  1839,  died  in  1874. 

63.  Charles  Dale  Carter,  born  April  11,  1844,  died  Dec.  29,  1896. 

64.  Elizabeth  Campbell  Carter,  born  Oct.  20,  1847. 

65.  Sallie  Preston  Carter,  born  Jan.  21,  1843,  died  Jan.  1,  1910. 

66.  Archibald  Stuart  Carter,  born  Nov.  20,  1855. 

59.  Mary  Taylor  Carter,  married  Aug.  7,  1849,  William  A. 
Stuart,  a  merchant  and  stockman  of  Saltville,  Va.  He  was  a 
brother  of  the  great  cavalry  leader  of  the  Confederacy — Gen.  J. 
E.  B.  Stuart,  and  son  of  Archibald  Stuart. 

Stuart  Excursus. 

About  1725  a  young  Scotchman,  named  Archibald  Stuart,  residing  in 
Ireland,  took  part  in  a  Presbyterian  insurrection,  which  was  quickly  put 
down  by  the  government  and  the  leaders  proscribed.  He  escaped  to  Penn- 
sylvania, and  a  few  years  later,  owing  to  a  general  amnesty  act,  was  able 
to  send  back  for  his  wife  and  children.     She  was  Janet  Brown,  a  sister  of 


248       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Rev.  John  Brown,  a  distinguished  devine,  who  also  came  to  Pennsylvania 
and  was  the  founder  of  a  prominent  family  in  Virginia  and  Kentucky.  In 
1738  Archibald  Stuart  removed  his  family  to  Augusta  Co.,  Va.,  where  he 
acquired  large  tracts  of  land.  He  died  in  i75Q,1eaving  Thomas,  Alexander, 
Benjamin,  and  Eleanor. 

Alexander  Stuart,  born  1733,  died  1822,  also  patented  large  tracts  of 
land.  In  the  Revolutionary  War  he  was  a  major  in  Col.  Samuel  Mc- 
Dowell's regiment,  which  he  commanded  at  the  battle  of  Guilford  Court 
House,  where  he  was  dangerously  wounded.  He  was  an  ardent  friend  of 
education  and  gave  largely  toward  the  endowment  of  Liberty  Hall  Acad- 
emy, now  Washington  and  Lee  University.  Major  Stuart  was  married 
three  times:  1st,  to  Mary  Patterson,  by  whom  he  had  Judge  Archibald, 
Robert,  Frances,  Jane,  Mary  Elizabeth,  and  Eleanor.  2nd,  To  Mrs.  Mary 
Paxton,  nee  Moore,  and  had,  James,  Priscilla,  Benjamin,  and  Judge  Alex- 
ander.    3rd,  Mrs.  Anne  Reid,  nee  Miller,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue. 

Alexander  Stuart,  youngest  son  by  the  second  wife,  was  educated  at 
Liberty  Hall,  and  read  law  with  his  brother,  Judge  Archibald  Stuart,  who 
had  read  law  under  Thomas  Jefferson.  Alexander  Stuart,  then  settled  in 
Campbell  County,  but  was  soon  elected  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council 
of  the  State  and  removed  to  Richmond.  When  the  Illinois  Territory  was 
formed  he  was  appointed  U.  S.  Judge,  and  removed  to  Kaskaskia,  which 
proving  unhealthy  to  his  family,  he  returned  to  Virgnia ;  and  later  he 
became  District  Judge  of  the  U.  S.  Court  in  Missouri,  where  he  died  in 
1832.  While  living  in  Richmond  he  was  married  to  Anne  Dabney,  and  had 
issue,  Judge  Archibald  Stuart  and  Anne,  who  married  Judge  James  Ewell 
Brown  of  Wythe  County. 

Archibald  Stuart,  only  son  of  Judge  Alexander  Stuart  and  his  first 
wife,  Anne  Dabney,  was  a  prominent  lawyer  and  politcian  in  Patrick  Co. 
He  was  an  officer  in  the  War  1812 ;  represented  his  county  several  times 
in  both  houses  of  the  Virginia  Assembly ;  was  a  member  of  Congress ;  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Constitutional  Conventions  of  i829-'30,  and 
i85o-'5i.  He  married  Elizabeth  Letcher  Pannill,  only  daughter  of  David 
and  Bethenia  Letcher  Pannill  of  Pittsylvania  County.  For  an  account  of 
the  families  of  Pannill  and  Letcher  see  William  and  Mary  Ouarterly,  Vol. 
VI  i 

Archibald  and  Elizabeth  P.  Stuart  had  issue:  Anne,  Betinna,  Creva- 
lier,  Mary,  David  P.,  William  Archibald,  Dr.  John,  and  Gen.  J.  E.  B. 

William  A.  Stuart,  once  owned  the  Greenbrier  White  Sulphur 
Springs,  and  most  of  the  salt  used  in  Virginia  during  the  war 
came  from  his  works  at  Saltville.  Mrs.  Mary  Taylor  Carter 
Stuart,  while  nursing  in  a  Confederate  hospital  fell  a  victim  to 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  249 

"Camp  Fever",  of  which  she  died  July  3,  1862.    They  had  issue 
three  sons : 

67.  Henry  Carter  Stuart,  born  Jan.  15,  1855,  of  whom  later. 

68.  Dale  Carter  Stuart,  born  July  24,  1858.  married  Sallie 
Preston  White  in  1892  and  has  two  sons,  John  White  and  Henry 
Carter. 

69.  Johx  J.  Stuart,  born  April  15,  i860,  is  a  prominent  at- 
torney at  Abingdon,  Ya.  In  1889  he  married  Kate  Preston  and 
has  issue:  William  A.,  Katharine  G.,  Henry  C,  Walter  P.,  and 
Margaret  P. 

William  A.  Stuart,  the  eldest  son,  after  a  competitive  examina- 
tion in  December,  1909,  won  a  Rhodes  scholarship  at  Oxford  Uni- 
versity, England.  A  notice  of  him  says:  "W.  A.  Stuart  began 
his  school  life  at  Stonewall  Jackson  Institute,  where  he  attained 
the  distinction  of  receiving  a  High  Honor  Certificate,  being  the 
only  boy  who  has  received  one  in  the  history  of  the  school.  When 
he  was  twelve  years  of  age  he  went  to  the  Abingdon  Male 
Academy,  and  while  attending  this  school  received  the  only  prizes 
offered,  namely :  two  gold  medals  for  declamation.  At  the  age 
of  fifteen  he  entered  Emory  and  Henry  College,  where  he  re- 
ceived the  Williams  medal  for  declamation  in  his  freshman  year. 
In  his  junior  year  he  received  the  Collins  medal  for  English  com- 
position, and  the  Robertson  prize  medal  for  oratory.  In  his  senior 
year  he  won  the  first  honor  of  his  class  given  for  the  highest 
average  grades  in  his  studies  during  the  junior  and  senior  years. 
He  also  received  the  gold  medal  awarded  for  the  best  original 
poem  published  in  the  College  magazine  in  1909.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  his  class  though  the  youngest  man  in  it ;  and  represented 
Emory  &  Henry  College  in  the  State  Inter-collegiate  oratorical 
contest  held  at  Charlottesville  in  April,  1909.  In  athletics  he  re- 
ceived numerous  prizes  for  running,  jumping,  etc.,  was  twice 
awarded  the  prize  as  the  best  all-around  athelete  in  college ;  and 
along  with  H.  L.  Spratt  won  the  tennis  championship.  He  played 
center  on  the  basketball  team  and  fullback  on  the  football  team. 
He  entered  the  University  of  Virginia  in  1909  and  was  on  the 


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football  squad  there,  etc.,  etc."    He  won  the  Rhodes  scholarship 
against  ten  other  competitors. 

67.  Henry  Carter  Stuart,  eldest  son  of  Win.  A.  and  Mary 
Carter  Stuart,  is  a  lawyer  and  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most 
prominent  men  in  Southwest  Virginia.  A  newspaper  notice  of 
him  in  1910  says:  ''Everybody  in  Virginia  knows  who  Henry  C. 
Stuart  is.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion, and  proved  by  his  work  in  that  body  his  fitness  for  public 
service  of  the  highest  order.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Corporation 
Commission  and  was  generally  regarded  as  the  ablest  member 
of  that  commission.  He  was  a  candidate  for  the  nomination  for 
governor  last  year,  but  could  not  make  the  race  because  of  the 
serious  illness  of  a  member  of  his  family,  which  took  him  abroad 
at  the  time.  He  is  a  man  of  fine  presence,  of  charming  manners, 
of  great  intellect,  and  of  large  wealth."  In  1910  Mr.  Stuart  was 
the  Democratic  candidate  for  Congress  from  the  9th  Va.  Dist. 
and  after  a  hotly  contested  race  reduced  a  normal  Republican 
majority  of  more  than  five  thousand  to  less  than  three  hundred. 

Feb.  26,  1896,  he  was  married  to  Margaret  Carter,  daughter  of 
his  uncle  Charles  Dale  Carter,  and  has  one  daughter,  Mary  Fulton 
Stuart. 

61.  John  Taylor  Carter,  farmer,  Carterton,  Va.,  married 
Margaret  Bartee  and  died  in  1908  without  issue.  He  served  dur- 
ing the  war  in  a  Confederate  regiment ;  and  in  iSyj-jR  repre- 
sented Russell  in  the  legislature. 

62.  Margaret  Crockett  Carter,  married  Sept.  15,  1864, 
John  T.  Lampkin,  farmer,  a  son  of  John  W.  Lampkin,  of  Russell 
county.  They  had  issue,  a  son  and  daughter  :  Dale  Carter  Lamp- 
kin, born  Dec.  25,  1868,  a  wealthy  farmer  and  stockman,  living  at 
Carter  Place,  the  old  home  of  his  grandfather,  Dale  Carter.  He 
is  unmarried.  And  Sarah  Preston  Lampkin,  who  was  married 
Dec.  15,  1896  to  W.  W.  Bird,  a  prominent  Russell  county  lawyer. 
She  died  Dec.  16,  1898,  leaving  no  surviving  issue.  Mr.  Bird  is 
a  son  of  Wm.  Beverley  Bird  of  "Cypress  Hall",  King  &  Queen 
county  and  his  wife  Martha  K.  Harwood,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Fauntleroy  Harwood  (born  1817,  died  1906)   of  <(Newington", 


Hon.  Henry   Carter   Stuart 
(Candidate  for  Governor  of  Virginia,  1913). 


Mrs.   Henry   Carter   Stuart, 
(nee   Margaret   Carter.) 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  251 

King  &  Queen,  and  his  wife  Bettie  Brockenbrough.  For  an  ac- 
count of  Newington  and  the  Harwoods,  see  Bagby's  Hist,  of  King 
&  Queen  county. 

65.  Sallie  Preston  Carter,  was  married  Oct.  17,  1878  to  A. 
A.  O.  Pennis,  a  prominent  civil  engineer  of  Holland,  who  was 
sent  to  this  country  by  his  government  to  study  American  methods 
and  systems  of  fortifications.  They  had  no  children.  Mrs.  Pen- 
nis was  greatly  interested  in  her  ancestry  and  sent  me  the  first 
data  I  had  of  the  Southwest  Ya.  Carters.  She  died  at  Johns- 
Hopkins  Hospital,  Baltimore,  on  New  Year's  day,  1910.  A  notice 
of  her  said  in  part:  "Mrs.  Pennis  was  in  the  67th  year  of  her 
age,  and  was  the  daughter  of  the  late  Dale  Carter,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  of  this  section  in  his  day  and  generation.  Her 
mother  was  Miss  Elizabeth  Smith,  of  a  family  notably  linked 
with  the  history  and  progress  of  Russell  county.  The  deceased 
was  a  woman  of  unusual  attainments  socially  and  mentally,  of 
commanding  personal  appearance  in  her  younger  days,  possess- 
ing a  beautiful  Christian  character,  having  been  a  consistent  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  from  her  child- 
hood. The  early  part  of  her  life  was  spent  at  the  home  of  her 
uncle  Charles  Smith,  at  "Clifton,"  who  was  a  man  of  public  af- 
fairs, etc.,  etc." 

63.  Charles  Dale  Carter,  was  a  prominent  farmer  and  stock- 
man in  Smyth  county,  where  he  died  Dec.  29,  1896.  June  19, 
1866,  he  married  Mary  Taylor  Fulton,  daughter  of  Rev.  Creed 
Fulton  and  his  wife  Mary  Taylor  of  Smyth  county.  They  had 
issue :  Creed  F.  Carter,  born  Sept.  6,  1867,  of  "Seven  Mile  Ford." 
Oct.  24,  1900,  he  married  Caroline  Kyle  Fulton,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Monroe  Fulton,  and  has  issue,  Charles  Dale,  Allen  Taylor, 
Katharine  Kyle,  and  Creed  Fulton,  Jr. 

Mary  Stuart  Carter,  born  Feb.  8,  1870,  was  married  Feb.  8, 
1893,  to  George  William  Tyler,  a  brother  of  Ex-Gov.  J.  Hoge 
Tyler,  and  son  of  Hon.  George  Tyler,  of  Caroline,  and  his  wife, 
Jane  Coleman  Quisenberry,  sister  of  Hon.  W.  D.  Quisenberry. 
They  have  issue,  Mary  Stuart,  Carter,  Sarah  Fulton,  Jane  Quisen- 
berry, Elizabeth  Dejarnette,  and  George  William. 


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Elizabeth  Dale  Carter,  born  May  8,  1873,  married  on  May  23, 
1894,  Frederick  Hill  Stith,  a  descendant  of  Rev.  William  Stith. 
He  died  leaving  a  daughter  Elizabeth  Stith.  April  25,  1903,  she 
married  John  Wolf  Von  Nieda  and  has  no  issue  by  the  second 
marriage. 

Mary  Crockett  Carter,  born  Feb.  17,  1877,  married  Feb.  26, 
1896,  her  first  cousin,  Hon.  Henry  Carter  Stuart.  See  under  head 
of  Stuart.  Dale  Carter,  born  Jan.  25,  1881,  died  Jan.  4,  1907,  mar- 
ried Sept.  25,  1904,  Sadie  Barnes,  daughter  of  Clinton  and  Mary 
Taylor  Barnes,  of  Tazewell  county. 

64.  Elizabeth  Campbell  Carter,  born  Oct.  20,  1847,  married 
Nov.  25,  1868,  Dr.  William  White  (born  1830,  died  1904)  of 
"Fruit  Hill,"  Abingdon,  Va.,  who  for  a  great  many  years  was  the 
leading  physician  of  that  place.  He  served  in  the  war  as  a  cap- 
tain in  the  Confederate  army.  Dr.  White  was  the  son  of  Col. 
James  L.  White  of  "Fruit  Hill''  and  his  wife  Margaret  Preston, 
daughter  of  Col.  John  Preston  of  "Walnut  Grove,"  Russell  county. 
The  Preston  family  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  in  Virginia 
and  has  intermarried  with  many  of  the  notable  families  of  the  Old 
Dominion  and  other  southern  States.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  White  had 
issue,  a  son  and  daughter:  Stuart  White,  born  Sept.  15,  1870, 
an  electrician  now  in  Oregan.  June  30,  1894  he  married  Emily 
West,  but  has  no  issue.  Pauline  C.  White,  born  Sept.  25,  1871, 
married  Nov.  23,  1 898,  Thomas  H.  Mason,  a  large  lumber  ex- 
porter of  Abingdon. 

Mason  Excursus. 

Thomas  H.  Mason  is  a  son  of  Judge  Mason  of  Charlestown,  West 
Virginia,  and  grandson  of  Hon.  James  Murry  Mason,  born  November 
3,  1798,  died  April  28,  1871.  He  was  a  United  States  Senator  from  Vir- 
ginia from  1847  until  expelled  in  July,  1861,  with  the  other  Southern  sena- 
tors. He  drafted  the  "Fugitve  Slave  Law"  in  1850,  and  in  1861  was  sent 
by  President  Davis  as  minister  from  the  Confederate  States  to  England 
and  France,  but  was  captured  by  the  United  States  authorities  and  held 
prisoner  until  January  1862.  James  M.  Mason  was  a  son  of  the  distin- 
guished George  Mason  of  "Guston  Hall,"  Virginia,  author  of  the  famous 
Bill  of  Rights,  etc.  This  is  one  of  Virginia's  oldest  and  most  notable 
families.     See  Mason  Notes  elsewhere  in  this  book. 


Mary    Fulton    Stuart 


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66.  Archibald  Stuart  Carter,  born  Nov.  20,  1855,  youngest 
son  of  Hon.  Dale  Carter,  was  married  in  1891  to  Lillian  McNeil 
and  removed  to  his  ranch  near  Newbury,  Oregon.  They  have  no 
children. 

46.  George  Carter,  born  1804,  died  1888,  second  son  of  John 
and  Sarah  Frazier  Carter,  was  a  farmer  in  Scott  county.  He  mar- 
ried Ruth  Roller  and  had  issue :  Andrew,  was  in  the  25th  Va. 
Cav.  C.  S.  A. ;  Charles,  was  in  the  Federal  army ;  James  was  in 
the  Federal  army ;  Winfield,  was  in  the  48th  Va.  Inf.,  C.  S.  A. ; 
John  F.,  was  in  the  64th  Va.  C.  S.  A.,  married  Mary  Lane  and 
had  issue,  Elijah,  Ruth,  Amanda,  George,  Joseph,  Charles  and 
Alba,  Henry,  Nancy,  and  Ellen. 

47.  Charles  Randolph  Carter,  born  in  1806,  died  in  1853  at 
Bryantsville,  Indiana.  He  was  married  near  Glasgow,  Barren 
county,  Ky.,  to  Lucy  Edwards  (lived  to  be  82  years  old)  daughter 
of  Wm.  E.  Edwards,  and  removed  at  once  to  Lawrence  county, 
Indiana.    They  had  issue: 

a.  Dale  Campbell. 

b.  George  Washington. 

c.  John  Donaldson. 

d.  Charles  Williamson. 

e.  Louisa. 

f.  Elizabeth. 

g.  Benjamin  F. 

a.  Dale  Campbell  Carter,  married  Belle  DeMoss,  and  died 
without  issue  at  the  age  of  73  years  in  Dallas,  Texas.  He  was  a 
prominent  civil  engineer  and  helped  to  survey  the  Union  Pacific. 
When  the  war  began  he  happened  to  be  in  West  Virginia,  where 
he  raised  a  company  and  joined  the  13th  West  Va.  Regt.  U.  S.  A., 
with  the  rank  of  captain.  In  the  later  years  of  his  life  he  was 
the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Carter,  Bird  &  Co.,  who  owned 
a  large  planing  mill  at  Dallas,  Texas. 

b.  George  Washington  Carter,  removed  to  Missouri  before  the 
war,  but  was  colonel  of  the  21st  Texas  Regiment  in  the  Confed- 
erate Army  under  Gen.  Price.  After  the  consolidation  of  the 
armies  of  Gens.  Price  and   Pemberton,  he  was  Transportation 


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G EXE A LOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


Quartermaster  and  was  in  the  besieged  city  of  Vicksburg  with 
Gen.  Pemberton,  but  a  few  days  before  the  surrender  he  was  given 
an  indefinite  furlough  and  succeeded  in  escaping  through  the 
Federal  lines.  He  went  to  a  little  place  in  Illinois  opposite  his 
Missouri  home,  where  his  wife  joined  him.  A  few  months  later 
Gen.  Rosecrans,  hearing  of  Col.  Carter's  retreat,  sent  a  detachment 
of  soldiers  with  a  special  invitation  for  the  colonel  to  visit  him 
in  St.  Louis.  Under  the  circumstances  he  could  hardly  refuse  to 
go,  but  having  more  option  in  the  matter  of  taking  the  oath  of 
allegiance  he  refused  that  and  so  spent  nine  months  in  prison,  and 
was  then  released  on  his  parole  not  to  go  south  of  the  Ohio  River 
or  west  of  the  Mississippi  during  the  remainder  of  the  war.  After 
the  war  he  removed  to  Terrell,  Texas,  where  he  died  in  1890.  His 
wife  was  Mattie  Bird  and  they  had  issue :  Marshall  Dermott, 
Charles,  Hilda,  and  Hattie,  all  of  whom  are  said  to  live  in  Terrell, 
Tex. 

d.  John  Donaldson  Carter,  born  in  1834,  died  1908  at  Orleans, 
Ind.,  was  orderly  sergeant,  Co.  D.  16th  Ind.  Vols.,  and  "was 
wounded  in  his  first  engagement  at  Richmond,  Ky.,  where  Kirby 
Smith  worried  Nelson  in  a  manner  which  the  latter  despised." 
He  married  Mary  Carter  (not  related  to  him)  and  had  issue: 
Luther,  Frederick,  and  Belle,  who  married  Leonidas  Magner  and 
has  a  daughter  Teresa. 

d.  Charles  Williamson  Carter,  born  in  1836,  died  at  Havre, 
Ind.,  Aug.  3,  1863,  unmarried.  He  was  sergeant  in  the  18th  U. 
S.  Regulars  for  two  years  and  was  captured  by  Gen.  Kirby  Smith 
at  Richmond,  Ky.,  being  connected  with  the  16th  Regt.  in  that 
battle. 

e.  Louisa  Carter,  married  circa  i860  Af  red  H.  Terrell  of  Huron, 
Ind.  They  have  issue:  Charles,  Jesse,  Florence,  married  James 
Elrod,  a  merchant  at  Orleans,  Ind. 

f.  Elizabeth  Carter  married  Chas.  M.  Freeman,  of  Salem,  Ind., 
and  has  sons  Wm,  French,  and  Simon. 

g.  Benjamin  F.  Carter,  born  Oct.  28,  1843,  was  orderly  sergeant 
Co.  D.  145th  Ind.  Vols,  during  the  war.  He  married  Mollie  True- 
blood  on  Dec.  8,  1863,  and  lives  now  near  Cumberland,  Ind.  They 
have  issue:     Nigel  Bruce  Carter,  born  Sept.  19,  1864.     He  is  a 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  255 

railroad  man  and  lives  at  Cheyenne,  Wyo.  Is  unmarried.  Charles 
William  Carter,  born  Nov.  6,  1871,  is  stock  superintendent  at  the 
Atkins  Saw  Works  at  Indianapolis.  He  was  married  Oct.  19, 
1895,  to  Winifred  J.  Dawson  and  has  a  daughter,  Winifred  Louise. 
Lucy  Leona  Carter,  born  Nov.  15,  1875,  married  Chas.  Anderson 
Luse,  auditor  of  the  Continental  Casualty  Co.,  of  Chicago.  Nellie 
Allen  Carter,  born  Oct.  29,  1887,  married  Newton  C.  Hurlburt, 
of  the  Kenney  Machine  Co.  of  Indianapolis,  and  has  a  daughter 
Katharine  Louise,  and  a  son. 

48.  Henry  Carter,  born  in  1808.  died  in  1879,  farmer  in  Scott 
county.  During  the  war  he  was  in  the  "State  Line  Service"  in 
the  Confederate  army;  i867-'69  was  sheriff  of  Scott  county;  and 
about  i878-'79  represented  that  county  in  the  State  Assembly. 
He  married  Dicey  Frazier  and  had  three  sons : 

a.  James  H. 

b.  Solomon  Frazier  ("Keon"). 

c.  Jackson.      All  three  were  in  the  25th  Va.  Cav.  C.  S.  A. 

a.  James  H.  Carter,  farmer,  married  first  a  Miss  Horton,  who 
was  the  mother  of  twelve  of  his  twenty  children.  He  had  issue 
as  follows :  Winfield  married  Nancy  Kern  and  had  James,  Rosa, 
Charles,  John,  Ballard,  Nettie,  Henry,  Esther,  William,  Mattie, 
Emma  and  George ;  Henry  married  Mary  Kilgore  and  had  Benja- 
min and  William;  Jessee  d.  s.  p.;  Mary  married  Robert  Harris 
Esther  married  Vigie  Bray ;  James  married  Polly  Hill ;  Robert 
married  Kate  Rhodes ;  Nancy  married  Richard  Kern ;  Charles 
married  Esther  Minor;  John  married  a  Miss  Kiser;  Solomon 
married  Elizabeth  Starnes ;  Hiram;  Benjamin;  Addie ;  Laura; 
Amanda ;  Stephen  ;  Audley ;  Rhea  and  Clinton.  The  last  named 
are  by  James  H.  Carter's  second  wife. 

b.  Solomon  F.  Carter,  farmer,  married  and  had  issue:  John 
Trigg  married  Emma  Walker  and  has  Roy ;  Elkanah ;  Mary  mar- 
ried Philip  Owens. 

49.  Joseph  Carter,  born  1810,  died  1880,  farmer,  married  Rit- 
tie  White  and  had  issue ;  Nelson  married  a  Miss  Gray ;  Hoscoe 
married  Micca  Morrison  and  had  Elizabeth,  Mamie,  Moxie  and 
Mary ;  Henry  married  Elizabeth  Hilton  and  had  Neil,  Floyd  and 


256       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Nora ;  Dale ;  Helen ;  Abigail ;  Margaret ;  Dicey ;  Louisa  and  Rit- 
tie. 

50.  James  P.  Carter  ("Squire  Jim"),  born  1812,  died  1897, 
farmer,  was  in  the  "State  Line  Service"  in  the  war.  He  married 
his  step-sister  Elizabeth  Neil  and  had  issue:  Hoscoe ;  Clay,  who 
was  in  the  25th  Va.  Cav.  C.  S.,  after  the  war,  married  and  had 
James  of  Chattanooga,  Ella  married  first  James  Mann  and  second 
W.  C.  R.  Strong,  and  Elizabeth  who  married  Wm.  Tipton ;  Bal- 
lard ;  John  N.  who  had  son  James  E.  and  a  daughter  Laura  who 
married  an  Edwards  and  lives  on  the  old  Carter  place. 

54.  Davidson  Carter,  married  Bettie  Landreth  and  removed  to 
Indiana.  They  had  issue :  Thomas  L. ;  Dale  W. ;  John  P. ;  Hen- 
derson and  Nancy.  They  are  all  dead  now,  but  some  of  them  left 
decendants  of  whom  I  have  no  data. 

52.  Elihu  Embrie  Carter,  born  in  1816,  removed  to  Indiana 
with  his  brothers  John,  Davidson  and  Charles  Randolph.  He  had 
a  son  John  who  was  blown  up  on  one  of  Admiral  Farragut's  ves- 
sels in  Mobile  Bay,  and  other  children  of  whom  I  have  no  data. 

53.  John  Trigg  Carter,  born  in  1818,  removed  to  Indiana  and 
was  married  twice.  First  to  a  Miss  Ard,  by  whom  he  had  a  son 
William,  and  second  to  a  Miss  Williamson  of  111.,  by  whom  he  had 
several  children. 

51.  Frazier  Carter,  while  cutting  down  a  tree  one  day  acci- 
dentally killed  one  of  his  little  sisters  upon  whom  the  tree  fell. 
He  brooded  over  this  till  he  was  nearly  insane.  Finally  went  west 
and  was  lost  sight  of. 

57.  Allen  T.  Carter,  born  1828,  died  1862,  only  son  of  John 
Carter  by  his  last  wife,  was  married  in  1852  to  Susan  Bledsoe  and 
had  issue : 

a.  Burdine,  born  in  1853. 

b.  Abraham,  born  in  i860. 

a.  Burdine  Carter  married  Frances  Robinson  and  had  issue: 
Allen,  H.  P.,  Burley,  Doyle,  Elbert,  Ernest,  Jemima,  Rebecca, 
Molly,  Owa  and  Mattie.    They  all  live  in  Lee  county. 


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b.  Abraham  Carter  married  Martha  J.  Anderson  and  has  issue : 
Virginia,  Myrtle,  Louetta,  Minnie,  Moxie,  Allen,  Benton  and 
McKinley.    All  live  in  Lee  county. 

55.  Polly  Carter,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Frazier  Carter, 
ran  away  and  married  a  Mr.  Solomon.  Her  grandson,  Frank 
Morehouse,  Lynchburg,  writes:  "Her  maiden  name  was  Polly 
Carter,  and  she  married  a  man  by  the  name  of  Solomon  (he  was 
a  very  handsome  man,  and  was  the  overseer  of  her  father's  slaves) . 
They  ran  away.  I  do  not  know  his  given  name  as  she  never  spoke 
of  him." 

39.  Charles  Burr  Carter,  third  son  of  Norris  and  Agnes 
Allen  Carter,  born  about  1776,  died  in  1842,  was  a  farmer  in 
Scott  county.    He  married  Nancy  Taylor  and  had  issue : 

a.  Taylor  W.,  who  was  an  invalid  for  many  years  and  died  in 
1838  unmarried.  He  is  said  to  have  been  well  educated  and  had 
he  had  good  health  would  have  been  one  of  the  prominent  men  of 
his  section. 

b.  Ibbie,  married  in  1839  John  Duncan  and  died  in  1843. 

c.  Margaret,  married  Jezreel  Grosejclose,  of  Wythe  county 
(now  Bland)   and  had  issue  three  daughters:  Adeline  married 

Maj. Repass;  Nancy  married  Jerome  Harmon;  and  Ibbie 

married  Dr.  Repass.    No  other  data. 

John  and  Ibbie  Carter  Duncan  had  issue  two  sons :  Charles  T., 
born  July  9,  1840,  and  William  R.,  born  in  Nov.  1841. 

Charles  T.  Duncan  is  a  prominent  attorney  at  Jonesville,  Lee 
county,  who  has  served  two  terms  as  Commonwealth's  Attorney 
and  one  term  as  judge  of  the  county  court.  During  the  wyar  he 
was  Lieutenant  of  Co.  D.  37th  Va.  Vols.  C.  S.  A.  and  "served 
quite  a  large  part  of  the  war  as  aide,  first  to  Gen.  Wm.  B.  Talia- 
ferro, and  later  to  Gen.  Geo.  H.  Stuart,  of  Baltimore,  who  com- 
manded the  Brigade  after  the  promotion  of  Gen.  Taliaferro." 

"My  brother  belonged  to  the  same  company  and  regiment  a> 
myself.  We  were  both  in  the  army  of  the  Confederacy  from  the 
beginning  to  the  end,  being  mustered  into  service  on  the  20th  day 
of  May,  1861,  and  getting  home  from  prison  about  the  1st  of  July, 
1865.     We  were  captured  on  the  12th  day  of  May,  1864,  at  the 


258       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Bloody  Angle  near  Spotsylvania  court-house  in  the  battle  of  the 
Wilderness.  I  was  twice  wounded  during  the  war,  the  first  time 
at  Sharpsburg,  Md.,  and  the  second  time  at  Chancellorsville,  Va. 
I  was  under  fire  forty-three  times  and  participated  in  eighteen  of 
the  hardest  fought  battles  of  the  war  in  Virginia,  missing  none 
except  first  Manassas,  from  the  beginning  up  to  the  time  I  was 
captured.  My  brother  participated  in  about  the  same  number." 
Judge  Duncan  writes  also :  "I  was  a  member  of  the  State  Consti- 
tutional Convention  of  i867-'68,  better  known  as  the  'Black  and 
Tan  Underwood  Convention.'  But  I  want  you  to  distinctly  under- 
stand that  I  was  on  the  white  man's  side  of  that  Convention,  and 
therefore  very  much  in  the  minority." 

Judge  Duncan  has  been  married  twice.  First  to  Mary  L.  Mar- 
tin, daughter  of  Col.  William  S.  Martin,  and  niece  of  Hon.  Elbert 
S.  Martin,  who  represented  his  District  in  Congress  in  i86o-'6i. 
Second  to  Mary  E.  Holliday,  daughter  of  Francis  Holliday,  of 
Illinois.  He  has  five  children :  Maggie  Lee,  who  married  L.  T. 
Hyatt,  an  attorney  at  law  at  Abingdon ;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Dr. 
W.  A.  Baker,  of  Big  Stone  Gap,  Va. ;  Emma,  unmarried ;  Charles 
T.,  Jr.,  and  Paul,  who  are  students  at  Emory  and  Henry  College. 

William  R.  Duncan,  removed  in  1888  to  a  cattle  ranch  he  owns 
in  the  Cascade  Mts.,  near  Spokane,  Washington.  He  married 
Sallie  Vermillion  in  Virginia  and  has  issue:  Katharine,  Charles, 
and  John. 

40.  Williamson  Carter,  farmer,  born  about  1777,  died  after 
1850.  On  Feb.  23,  1805,  he  purchased  a  hundred  acres  of  land 
on  the  north  side  of  Clinch  river,  from  John  Carter.  It  was 
probably  about  this  time  that  he  married  a  Miss  England.  They 
had  issue:  Elijah,  Sheffey,  Winifred,  Russell,  Landon  and  Mor- 
gan. Russell  and  Landon  were  in  the  25th  Va.  Cav.  C.  S.  A.  No 
further  data  of  this  branch  of  the  family. 

41.  Henry  Carter,  born  in  1779,  died  in  1872,  farmer  in  Scott 
county,  married  Polly  McNew  and  left  no  issue.  , 

43.  Peter  Carter,  born  about  1784,  farmer  Scott  county,  mar- 
ried Ursula  Rainey,  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  most  beautiful 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  259 

women  in  that  section  of  Virginia.  They  had  issue,  a  son  Hiram, 
and  two  daughters,  Jemima  and  another  who  married  Milton  Car- 
ter. 

Hiram  Carter,  born  circa  1810,  died  about  1900,  married  Eliza 
Sailing  and  had  issue:  Craig;  Hotler ;  Joseph  Larue  married 
Thos.  Neff;  Henry;  Berry;  Washington;  Monroe;  Margaret; 
Elizabeth  married  first  a  Mr.  Hogan  and  second  a  Mr.  Markman ; 
Mahala  married  Gilbert  Nelson ;  and  a  daughter  who  married  C. 
C.  Starnes.    All  are  of  Scott  county. 

Jemima  Carter,  eldest  daughter  of  Peter,  married  in  1820  John 
R.  Carter,  whose  father,  John  R.  Carter,  Sr.,  came  with  his  brother 
Joseph  Carter  in  1790  to  Southwest  Va.,  direct  from  England. 
John  R.,  Jr.,  had  brothers  Wesley,  and  Milton,  who  married  a 
younger  sister  of  Jemima  Carter.  John  R.  and  Jemima  Carter 
had  issue : 

a.  Hansford,  clerk  of  Scott  county  i8s2-'58,  died  in  1866. 

b.  Charles  Pinckney,  born  1832,  died  1905. 

c.  Francis  Marion,  was  in  the  25th  Va.  Cav.  C.  S.  A.,  and  died 
in  1885. 

d.  Milton  Ladd. 

e.  Rosamond,  married  Wm.  Berry. 

John  R.  Carter  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  in  the  124th  Va. 
Regt.  Mil.,  April  22,  1822. 

b.  Charles  Pinckney  Carter,  farmer,  Scott  county,  is  said  to 
have  been  "one  of  the  brainest  men  that  lived  in  this  or  any  other 
county,  a  veritable  encyclopedia  of  information  on  every  subject 
from  the  growth  of  plants  to  the  functions  of  a  government."  He 
married  a  Miss  Egan,  and  had  sons,  Thomas,  Stonewall  Jackson, 
and  Hansford.    He  was  in  the  48th  Va.  Inf.  C.  S.  A. 

d.  Milton  Ladd  Carter,  at  the  beginning  of  the  war  entered 
the  Confederate  army  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  48th  Va.  Inf.,  and 
later  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  in  the  7th  Battalion.  He 
was  married  twice:  (1)  Polly  Carter  of  Scott  county,  (2)  Susan 
McMath  Palmer,  of  Montgomery  county.    Issue  by  first  marriage : 

Virginia  Hinkle  Carter,  married  William  Stewart,  a  Scott 
county  farmer,  and  had  one  child,  Laura  E.  Stewart,  who  married 
Wm.  W.  Ramey,  the  present  treasurer  of  Scott  county. 

Mary  Lloyd  Carter. 


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John  Pinckney  Carter,  farmer,  married  Phoebe  Cox. 

Milton  Ladd  Carter,  Jr.,  merchant. 

Thomas  Marion  Carter,  dead. 
Issue  by  second  marriage : 

Charles  P.  Carter. 

George  E.  Carter,  farmer,  Scott  county,  married  Elizabeth 
Johnson. 

Clara  A.  Carter,  married  John  J.  Alley,  a  merchant  and  manu- 
facturer of  hardwood  lumber  at  Bristol,  Va.-Tenn.  He  is  a 
native  of  Scott  county,  and  at  one  time  was  sheriff  of  his  county 
and  later  Deputy  United  States  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue  for 
the  Western  District  of  Virginia.  They  have  five  children :  Janie 
Elizabeth,  Margaret  Sevier,  Ethel  Katharine,  John  Palmer  and 
Rufus  Carter. 

44.  Molly  Carter,  daughter  of  Norris  and  Agnes  Allen  Car- 
ter, married  a  Mr.  Carter.  Could  this  have  been  Landon  Carter, 
son  of  the  John  Carter  who  settled  at  Wolf  Hills  (Abingdon) 
about  1777,  and  several  years  later  settled  Carter's  Valley,  Ten- 
nessee?   She  had  issue: 

a.  Landon  C.  Carter. 

b.  Jemima  Carter. 

c.  William  B.  Carter. 

a.  Landon  C.  Carter,  farmer,  was  in  the  25th  Va.  Cav.  C.  S.  A. 
He  married  twice  and  had  issue:  Dale  W.  (was  in  the  64th  Va. 
Regt.  C.  S.  A.)  who  married  and  had  Davis  and  Malissa;  Morgan 
(in  the  64th  Va.)  who  married  and  had  James,  Rosa,  and  Sally; 
Joseph ;  Agnes,  married  a  Mr.  Darnell ;  Elizabeth  married  a  Mr. 
Boatright;  Ibbie;  Ira;  Isaac;  Robert  and  Landon. 

b.  Jemima  Carter  married  William  Aslin  and  had  a  daughter 
who  married  a  Mr.  Davidson. 

c.  William  B.  Carter,  married  and  had  issue:  Thomas,  d.  s. 
p.;  Peter;  John  R. ;  Polly  married  Dionisus  Wolf. 

Peter  Carter  married  Phoeby  Cox  and  had  William,  Marion, 
Nathan,  Peter  E.,  Ballard  ;  Ellen  married  Wm.  Fugate,  and  Eliza- 
beth married  J.  F.  Richmond,  present  clerk  of  Scott  county. 

John  R.  Carter  married  first  a  Miss  Moore  and  had  William, 
Hugh,  Floyd ;  Mary  married  Chas.  Egan ;  he  then  married  Sarah 
Cox  and  had  Isaac  and  Robert. 


i.  Janie  Elizabeth  Alley, 

2.  Charles    Pinckney    Carter, 

3.  Hon.    E.    M.   Carter, 

4.  Mrs.   Clara  Carter  Alley. 


Descendants  of  Dale  Carter  of  Lancaster 

County- 
Dale  Carter,  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Arabella  Williamson 
Carter,  was  probably  the  seventh  son  in  point  of  birth.  He  was 
born  circa  i7o8-'io,  and  died  Dec.  12,  1776,  in  the  county  where 
he  was  born.  The  account  of  the  Carters  written  in  1858  by  John 
Carter,  a  grandson  of  his  brother  Daniel  Carter,  says:  "Grand- 
father and  his  brothers  Dale  and  Tom  was  all  that  staid  in  this 
county.  Dale  owned  a  good  plantation  in  Christ  Church  parish 
and  was  a  man  of  great  respectability,  he  died  in  1776  and  his  will 
is  at  the  court-house.  He  was  married  twice.  The  first  one  I 
think  was  a  Miss  Edwards  and  was  the  mother  of  his  children, 
the  last  one  was  a  widow  I  think  but  I  don't  know  her  name.  He 
had  six  sons  and  three  daughters  named  Jeduthan,  Augustine, 
John,  Jesse,  Billy  and  James,  the  girls  were  Bell,  Fanny  and  Ann. 
Jed  went  south  and  I  don't  know  what  became  of  him.  Augus- 
tine and  aunt  Fanny  were  engaged  to  marry,  but  she  got  mad  one 
time  when  he  danced  two  or  three  times  at  a  ball  with  a  girl  she 
didn't  like  and  told  him  he  could  marry  her  if  he  wanted  to,  for 
she  wouldn't  have  him.  And  they  never  made  it  up,  and  neither 
one  married.  He  died  in  this  county  during  the  last  war  with 
England.  John  married  a  Miss  Yerby  and  went  west.  Jesse  was 
an  Episcopal  minister  and  lived  a  long  time  in  King  &  Queen 
county,  but  I  don't  know  much  about  him,  think  he  had  a  son, 
James  and  a  son  John.  Billy  died  in  this  county  and  left  no  wife 
or  children.  James  died  in  this  county  twenty-five  or  thirty  years 
ago,  leaving  sons,  Humphrey,  James,  Dale  and  Tom,  and  some 
others." 

Dale  Carter  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church  and  appears  first 
in  the  vestry  book  of  the  combined  parishes  of  St.  Mary's  and 
Christ  Church  at  a  vestry  meeting  Nov.  29,  1744,  and  at  many 
of  the  meetings  in  subsequent  years.  From  Nov.  7,  1763,  till  Nov. 
11,  1776 — just  a  month  before  his  death — he  appears  as  the  clerk 
of  the  vestry  of  Christ  Church.    He  seems,  however,  to  have  been 


262       GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

interested  at  least,  if  not  actually  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  as  Col.  James  Gordon,  in  his  diary  in  1763,  names  Dale 
Carter,  among  others,  proposed  by  Mr.  Waddel  for  elders  in  the 
Presbyterian  church.  "Dale  Carter,  Gent."  was  a  justice  of  the 
county  court  in  i/63-'64-'65-'66;  and  in  1774  and  1776  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  for  Lancaster  county  (see 
Wm.  &  Mary  Quarterly).  In  1769  he  was  Tobacco  Inspector  at 
the  Davis  and  Lowry  Warehouse  on  the  Rappahannock;  and 
succeeded  his  brother  Joseph  as  tobacco  inspector  in  1738. 

The  following  extracts  mentioning  Dale  Carter  are  taken  from 
Col.  Gordon's  diary  : 

June  9,  1758.  "This  day  my  daughter  Anne  was  married  to  Mr. 
Richd  Chichester  about  1 1  o'clock  forenoon ;  had  a  very  agreeable 
company,  viz. :  Col.  Conway,  Mrs.  C.  and  her  children,  Col.  Tay- 
loe,  Dr.  Robertson,  &  his  wife,  Mrs.  Chinn,  Mr.  Armistead,  Mr. 
Dale  Carter  &  his  wife,  Mrs.  Dogget  &  Sally,  Bridger  Haynie, 
Col.  Seldon  &  Miss  Betty  Seldon,  Richd.  Spann,  and  Robt.  Hen- 
ning." 

Oct.  14,  1 761.  "Went  with  Col.  Tayloe  and  Mr.  Dale  Carter 
to  Mr.  Chichester  to  get  his  English  papers  ready  to  send  to  Wmrg. 
to  have  the  Governor's  certificate  &  seal  of  the  Colony." 

Jan.  6,  1762.  "Mrs.  Conway  and  her  children,  Col.  Tayloe,  and 
Dale  Carter  to  dinner.    Stayed  all  night." 

March  24,  1762.  "This  night  Sallie  Carter  died — Dale's  daugh- 
ter." 

Feb.  16,  1763.  "Mr.  Dale  Carter  came  to  let  us  know  that  Mrs. 
Edwards  has  cleared  up  Sally  Dogget's  character  by  oath." 

Oct.  5,  1763.  "Went  with  my  wife  to  see  Mr.  Dale  Carter, 
found  him  very  ill.  My  wife  carried  him  something  and  he  was 
better  in  the  evening." 

Oct.  6,  "Mr.  Dale  Carter's  negro  came  to  tell  us  his  master 
is  very  ill  all  night.  My  wife  rose  very  early  and  went  to  see  him. 
We  called  there  as  we  went  to  Col.  Conway's  funeral  and  found 
him  better." 

Dale  Carter's  second  wife  was  a  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Stradford,  who 
had  a  son  Peter  Stradford  by  her  first  husband.  She  was  prob- 
ably from  Middlesex  county. 


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Dec.  11,  1776,  "Dale  Carter  Gent."  of  Christ  Church  parish 
made  his  will,  which  was  probated  on  the  19th.  He  left  to  wife 
all  the  estate  she  had  brought  with  her  and  what  he  paid  out  for 
Peter  Stradford,  in  lieu  of  her  dower.  Son  James  to  have  the 
home  plantation ;  daughter  Anne  to  have  negroes  Mary  and  Spen- 
cer ;  son  John  to  have  £5  cash ;  and  he  and  Anne  to  have  the  right 
to  live  at  the  home  place  until  married.  Rest  of  estate  equally  to 
all  children.  Dale  Carter  evidently  inherited  his  great  grand- 
father Edward  Dale's  seal,  as  his  will  bears  a  seal  showing  the 
Dale  crest  similar  to  that  on  his  grandfather  Thomas  Carter's 
will  in  1700.  Dale  Carter  and  his  first  wife  Miss  Edwards  (?) 
had  issue : 

I.  Jeduthan. 

II.  James,  died  circa  1825. 

III.  William,  died  in  1790. 

IV.  Augustine,  died  in  1812. 

V.  Rev.  Jesse,  died  after  1800. 

VI.  John. 

VII.  Sallie,  died  March  24,  1762. 

VIII.  Frances,  married  a  Mr.  Edwards. 

IX.  Anne. 

X.  Arabella. 

I.  Jeduthan  Carter,  removed  to  Pittsylvania  county,  where 
he  married  his  cousin  Sarah  Carter,  daughter  of  Jesse  Carter  of 
"Oakland",  and  died  in  1820  without  issue,  leaving  a  fine  planta- 
tion known  as  "Mt.  View." 

II.  James  Carter,  was  married  and  had  three  children  in  1785. 
He  is  said  to  have  had  sons  Humphrey,  Dale,  James  and  Thomas, 
besides  others.  Humphrey  and  Thomas  Carter,  were  privates  in 
Captain  Hugh  Brent's  company  of  Militia  that  saw  service  in  the 
War  1812. 

IV.  Augustine  Carter,  born  Oct.  22,  1741,  made  his  will  Oct. 
21,  181 1.  He  mentions  brother  James  Carter,  and  left  his  prop- 
erty to  be  divided  equally  between  "Mr.  Charles  Webb  for  his 
kindness  to  me  this  present  year,  and  to  the  poorest  man  in  Lan- 


264       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

caster  county."  As  stated  above  he  was  at  one  time  engaged  to 
be  married  to  his  cousin  Frances  Carter,  daughter  of  his  uncle 
Daniel  Carter,  and  the  engagement  was  broken.  Neither  one 
married  and  she  died  in  1830  at  the  age  of  92  years. 

V.  Rev.  Jesse  Carter,  was  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  but  owing 
to  the  loss  of  the  records  of  King  &  Queen  and  Caroline  counties, 
but  little  is  known  of  him.  In  1772  he  applied  for  the  parish  of 
Southam  in  Cumberland  county  and  preached  there  until  Novem- 
ber, 1773,  when  a  Mr.  Saunders  was  chosen  rector.  After  this 
he  seems  to  have  been  the  minister  of  one  or  more  churches  in 
Drysdale  parish,  King  &  Queen  county,  where  between  Sept.  10, 
1778,  and  April  26,  1796,  he  baptized  ten  of  the  children  of  Temple 
and  Anne  Baylor  Gwathmey.  Between  1794  and  181 6  the  parish  of 
South  Farnham,  Essex  county,  was  without  a  regular  minister, 
and  Bishop  Meade  gives  the  name  of  Rev.  Mr.  Carter,  of  Drysdale 
parish,  King  &  Queen,  as  one  of  the  ministers  of  nearby  parishes 
who  officiated  in  South  Farnham  for  the  rites  of  baptism,  mar- 
riage and  burial.  In  1785,  '87,  &  '89  he  represented  Drysdale 
parish,  Caroline  county,  in  the  Episcopal  conventions  of  those 
years. 


Descendants  of  Charles  Carter  of  Stafford 
and  Amherst 

Charles  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  Arabella  William- 
son Carter,  born  circa  iyio'12,  died  in  Amherst  county  in  1766. 
He  was  under  twenty  years  of  age  when  his  father  made  his  will 
in  1728,  and  was  left  in  the  care  of  his  brother  Peter  until  he 
reached  that  age.  He  inherited  a  good  plantation  of  several  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  in  Stafford  from  his  father,  who  at  one  time 
owned  twenty-four  hundred  acres  of  land  in  that  county.  About 
1755  he  removed  to  that  part  of  Albermarle  which  became  Am- 
herst in  1760,  where  his  will  dated  June  21,  1766,  was  probated 
Dec.  1,  1766.  He  died  Nov.  2,  1766.  He  left  to  each  of  his  five 
children  two  negroes  ,and  the  rest  of  his  estate  to  "loving  wife 
Lucy"  during  the  rest  of  her  lifetime.  His  personal  estate 
amounted  to  £764.  2s.  8d.,  and  included  14  negroes,  eleven  shil- 
lings worth  of  books,  good  lot  of  furniture,  etc.  The  surname  of 
Charles  Carter's  wife  and  the  date  of  their  marriage  is  unknown. 
The  Overwharton  Register  records  the  birth  of  four  of  their 
children.    They  had  issue : 

I.  John  Carter. 

II.  Dale  Carter,  born  Aug.  9,  1744. 

III.  Judith  Carter,  born  March  17,  1747,  died  Dec.  18,  1750. 

IV.  Lucy  Carter,  born  Feb.  16,  1750,  died  August  22,  175 1. 
Y.  Catharine  Carter,  born  Oct.  26,  1753,  died  prior  to  1766. 

VI.  Susannah  Carter,  probably  born  in  1755  in  Amherst. 

VII.  Elizabeth  Carter. 

VIII.  Charles  Carter. 

I.  John  Carter,  on  April  1,  1783,  had  a  survey  for  172  acres 
of  land  lying  on  north  side  of  Clinch  river  below  the  mouth  of 
Cane  creek,  and  on  the  same  day  the  county  "Comrs.  certify  that 
Jno.  Carter  is  entitled  to  400  acres  adjoining  the  mouth  of  Cane 
creek  on  north  side  of  Clinch  river,  92  of  which  was  surveyed  Mar. 
26,  1774,  by  virtue  of  an  order  of  Council  passed  16  Dec,  1773 


266  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

to  include  his  improvements,  he  having  proved  to  the  court  that 
he  was  entitled  to  the  same  by  actual  settlement  made  in  the  year 
1773."  When  Russell  county  was  formed  John  Carter  and  his 
brother  Charles  qualified  as  deputy  sheriffs  on  May  9,  1786.  A 
year  later  his  entire  family  was  murdered  by  the  Indians,  and  is 
mentioned  by  Summers  as  follows:  "On  the  9th  day  of  July  1787 
a  party  of  Indians  came  to  the  house  of  John  Carter,  on  the  Clinch, 
and  killed  his  wife  and  six  children,  and  after  plundering-  the 
house,  placed  the  dead  bodies  in  the  same  and  burned  the  whole." 
His  deeds  for  land  show  that  he  married  again,  but  I  have  not 
been  able  to  locate  his  will  or  any  descendants.  May  26,  1803, 
John  Carter  sold  72  acres  of  his  1783  grant,  to  Robert  Mitchell. 
No  wife  mentioned.  February  23,  1805,  John  Carter  and  wife 
Margaret  sold  100  acres  of  this  grant  to  Wm.  Taylor ;  and  on  the 
same  day  they  sold  another  100  acres  to  Williamson  Carter,  son 
of  Norris  Carter. 

As  they  do  not  appear  again  in  the  county  records,  John  Carter 
and  wife  may  have  removed  from  Russell  county  after  this  date. 

II.  Dale  Carter,  born  August  9,  1744,  in  Stafford  county, 
was  killed  by  Indians  on  October  6,  1774,  near  Blackmore's 
Fort.  About  1772  he  removed  to  the  Clinch  River  settlements 
with  his  brother  John  and  cousin  Thomas,  of  Fauquier.  March 
26,  1774,  had  a  survey  for  97  acres  on  Clinch  River.  Original 
letters  from  Major  Arthur  Campbell  to  Colonel  Wm.  Preston 
(preserved  by  the  Wisconsin  Historical  Society)  give  an  account 
of  his  murder  as  follows : 

"Royal  Oak,  October  12,  1774. 
*  *  *  Yesterday  also  I  had  an  Express  from  Ciynch, 
with  the  following  intelligence.  Thursday  ye  6th  Ins.  at  Black- 
mores  one  Dale  Carter  was  killed  and  scalped  within  55  Steps 
of  the  Fort.  Mr.  Anderson,  who  had  a  man  with  him,  fired  at  the 
Indian  as  he  was  Scalping  the  Man  killed,  while  the  other  Man 
shot  another  Indian.  The  Indians  fired  several  shots  at  Ander- 
son and  the  other,  when  they  fired  off  the  Bastion  at  them.  The 
Indians  had  like  to  done  Andersons  Job,  having  struck  the  stock- 
ade a  few  Inches  from  his  head.  Evidently  the  indians  inten- 
tions was  to  make  a  bold  push  to  enter  the  Fort  as  the  People 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  267 

was  chiefly  all  some  distance  away  from  the  Gate  upon  Logs,  and 
the  Enemy  it  seems  had  silently  crept  along  under  the  Bank  of 
the  River  completely  out  of  view,  until  poor  Carter  discovered 
mem,  he  immediately  commenced  hallooing  Murder;  one  Gun 
fired  and  missed — another  shot  him  thro  the  Thigh,  but  not 
Mortal,  he  could  not  escape  as  he  was  too  lame  (from  the  shot)  ; 
one  fellow  more  bold  than  the  rest  soon  ran  up  and  tomahaked 
and  scalped  him,  the  remainder  of  the  enemy  escaped  at  the 
distance  of  about  100  yards  and  fire-d  as  mentioned  before. 
*  *  *  This  unlucky  affair  happened  when  there  were  but 
few  men  in  the  Fort  and  Capt.  Looney  happened  to  be  in  this 
settlement  &  Lieut.  Cox  has  not  got  out." 

Four  days  later  Maj.  Campbell  wrote:  "There  was  an  ac- 
count came  here  last  Night  that  a  woman  &  two  children  were 
killed  or  taken  near  Blackmores  since  the  Murder  of  Carter.  But 
as  it  has  come  thro  several  hands  by  way  of  report  I  hope  it  is 
not  true;  as  the  people  in  that  Quarter  suffer  of  late  a  kind  of 
Seige  and  I  think  Women  and  children  would  not  be  straggling 
out."  I  have  not  been  able  to  get  any  abstracts  from  the  old 
Fincastle  county  records  as  to  the  distribution  of  Dale  Carter's 
property. 

VI.  Susannah  Carter,  born  circa  1755,  made  her  will  in 
Jan.,  1781,  which  was  probated  in  Washington  county,  where 
she  then  resided.  She  left  to  brother  Charles  Carter  of  the 
same  county  all  her  property,  which  included  three  negroes,  two 
of  whom  had  been  devised  to  her  by  her  father  Charles  Carter, 
of  Amherst  county. 

VIII.  Charles  Carter,  qualified  as  Deputy  Sheriff  of  the  new 
county  of  Russell  on  May  9,  1786.  Six  years  later  his  home  in 
Russell  fell  in  the  new  county  of  Lee,  which  was  cut  off  from 
Russell  in  1792.  He  became  the  first  clerk  of  Lee  county  and 
continued  in  that  office  from  1792  until  1824.  From  1793  until 
1826  his  name  appears  frequently  in  the  deed  records  of  Lee, 
but  the  records  of  this  county  do  not  contain  his  will,  so  it  is 
impossible  to  say  if  he  left  descendants.  He  is  supposed  to  be  the 
Charles  Carter,  buried  in  the  old  Carter  graveyard  in  Rye  Cove, 
Scott  county,  whose  tombstone  states  that  he  died  in  1828. 


Descendants  of 

John  Carter,  Third  Son  of  Capt.  Thomas 
and  Catharine  Carter 


Carters,  Taliaferros,  Simpsons,  Bacots,  Taylors,  Millers,  Suttons, 

Stevens,  Marshalls,  and  Others  of  Virginia,  South 

Carolina  and  Other  States. 


John  Carter,  Gent.,  of  Lancaster  and  Caroline 

Counties,  Virginia,  and  His 

Descendants 

John  Carter,  third  son  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Katharine 
Dale  Carter,  "was  bornd  ye  8th  May  1674  and  bapa  Sunday  ye 
14th  and  had  for  God  parents  Coll.  John  Carter,  Mr  Jno :  Stretch- 
ley  and  Mrs  Ball."— Prayer  Book. 

The  Colonel  John  Carter  mentioned  as  a  godfather  must  have 
been  Col.  John  Carter,  Jr.,  of  "Corotoman,"  as  Col.  John  Carter, 
Sr.,  died  in  1669. 

June  24,  1703,  John  Carter  and  his  brothers,  Thomas  and 
Henry,  gave  bond  of  five  hundred  pounds  sterling  to  their  brother, 
Edward,  guaranteeing  his  possession  of  a  hundred  acres  of  land 
left  by  their  father,  "Thomas  Carter  late  of  this  county  Gent 
dec'd."  This  is  the  last  appearance  of  John  Carter  in  the  records 
of  Lancaster,  and  until  I  had  access  to  the  Carter  MSS.  of  1858 
I  was  at  a  loss  as  to  where  he  settled  after  leaving  Lancaster. 
This  speaks  of  him  and  his  descendants  as  follows: 

"I  have  never  known  but  one  member  of  this  branch  of  the 
Carter  family  and  that  was  a  Mr.  Norborn  Sutton,  a  lawyer 
living  in  Caroline.  A  few  years  ago  he  spent  several  days  in 
Lancaster,  taking  depositions  in  a  suit  I  saw  him  at  the  court- 
house, and  on  hearing  my  name  he  said  his  grandfather  was 
a  Carter.  He  spent  Sunday  with  me  and  I  found  him  a  pleasant, 
well  informed  man.  He  knew  a  lot  about  his  people  and  told 
me  that  his  grandfather's  father  was  a  John  Carter,  who  settled 
in  Caroline  from  Lancaster  before  the  county  was  formed.  He 
did  not  know  the  name  of  John's  father,  but  I  believe'  it  must 
have  been  our  old  ancestor,  Tom,  who  had  a  son,  John.  He 
said  that  this  John  was  married  three  times ;  first  to  a  Miss  Ball, 
who  was  a  sister  or  cousin  of  General  Washington's  mother.  She 
died  without  leaving  any  children.  He  then  married  a  Miss 
Payne  and  had  several  daughters,  none  of  which  married,  and 


Mourning  Rixg  of  John  Carter,  Sr-,  of  Spotsylvania.     Silver  Knitting 
Needle  Shield,  and  Cap  Strings  of  Mrs.  Hannah   Chew  Carter. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  271 

after  she  died  he  married  a  Miss  Todd  of  King  and  Queen 
county  and  settled  in  that  county.  She  was  an  heiress  and  brought 
him  a  nice  dot  in  land  and  slaves.  They  had  sons,  Thomas,  John, 
Mr.  Sutton's  grandfather,  William,  who  has  descendants  now  in 
Caroline,  Robert,  of  King  and  Queen,  and  James,  who  left  no  chil- 
dren ;  and  a  daughter,  Margaret,  who  never  married.  John,  the 
oldest  son,  was  married  twice,  first  to  a  Miss  Betsy  Armstead,  of 
Richmond  county,  and  last  to  a  Miss  Hannah  Chew,  of  Spottsyl- 
vania.  The  first  wife  had  sons,  William,  married  Curtis ;  John, 
married  Sinjon,  and  daughters,  Fanny,  married  Curtis ;  Martha, 
married  Goodlo ;  Ann,  married  Heslop ;  Peggy,  married  Mar- 
shall ;  Betsy,  married  Thomas,  and  Sally,  married  Sutton,  and  was 
the  mother  of  Mr.  N.  S.  The  last  wife  had  son,  Robert,  never 
married,  and  daughters,  Mary,  married  Stevens ;  Margaret  Chew, 
married  Taliaferro ;  Judy,  married  Sutton,  Lucy,  married  Talia- 
fero,  and  Tilly,  never  married.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  War 
of  Independence  and  was  a  man  of  great  means  and  fine  style 
of  living.  His  children  all  had  big  families,  who  are  scattered 
everywhere.  John  Carter,  first  of  Caroline,  lived  to  be  very 
old." 

The  old  Prayer  Book  has  the  record  of  John  Carter's  first  and 
last  marriage,  but  gives  nothing  of  the  second. 

"John  Carter  &  Frances  Ball  was  Mar'd  on  Tuesday  the  21st 
Day  Novbr  1698."  She  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Ball,  of  'Epping 
Forest,'  and  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth  Romney,  as  shown  by  the 
notice  of  her  death  in  the  Carter  records.  She  was  born  in  1681 
and  was,  therefore,  Jos.  Ball's  eldest  daughter.  As  her  only 
child  died  in  1700  it  is  easily  seen  why  she  does  not  appear  in 
the  partition  deed  made  in  1707  by  Colonel  Ball  to  his  daugh- 
ters, and  likewise  in  his  will  in  171 1. 

"Frances  the  loving  &  dear  wife  of  John  Carter  and  Dau. 
of  Mr  Joseph  Ball  and  Elizabeth  his  Wife  Departed  this  life  at 
5  mints  to  8  a  clock  in  the  Morning  of  ye  3d  day  of  Septr  1699 
three  hours  after  she  was  Delivd  of  a  Son  in  the  18th  Year  of 
her  life.  And  was  buried  on  the  5h  day  at  Sl  Marys  White 
Chappell  attended  by  an  Affectionate  and  Sorrowing  Husband 
and  a  larQ-e  Concorse  of  Relatives  and  friends." 


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GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


"Joseph  Ball  Carter  followed  his  mother  to  the  Grave  on  the 
1st  day  of  July  1700  of  a  Flux  and  was  burd  at  Sl  Marys  on 
ye  2d." 

Colonel  Joseph  Ball,  as  is  well  known,  was  the  father  of  Mary 
Ball  Washington,  the  mother  of  General  George  Washington. 
As  his  daughter  Frances  Carter  left  no  surviving  issue  no  notes 
of  the  Ball  family  will  be  given  here ;  but  will  appear  at  other 
places  in  this  book,  as  there  were  five  intermarriages  between  the 
descendants  of  the  emigrants,  Captain  William  Ball,  Sr.,  and 
Captain  Thomas  Carter,  Sr. 

Nothing  is  known  of  the  second  wife  and  children  of  John 
Carter  more  than  is  given  above.  The  date  of  the  third  mar- 
riage is  as  follows: 

"John  Carter  was  married  to  Margaret,  the  Dauter  of  Mr  Wm 
todd  dec'd  on  the  4th  day  of  June  1714  by  Rv  Mr  J.  Shafe  at 
10  o'clock  in  the  morng." 

Todd  Excursus. 

The  iraditon  in  the  Carter  MSS-,  the  fact  that  the  marriage  was  per- 
formed by  a  King  and  Queen  minister,  the  similarity  in  names,  etc.,  makes 
it  almost  a  certainty  that  Wm.  Todd,  father  of  the  third  Mrs.  John  Car- 
ter, was  the  Wm.  Todd  who  had  a  grant  of  238  acres  of  land  in  King  and 
Queen  in  1691,  and  500  acres  in  1693,  which  in  1695  was  regranted  to 
Margaret  and  Frances  Todd,  orphan  children  of  Wm.  Todd,  dec'd. 

It  is  also  reasonably  certain  that  this  William  Todd  was  the  William 
Todd  (born  circa,  1665)  one  of  the  untraced  sons  of  Capt.  Thomas  Todd, 
Sr.,  and  his  wife  Ann  Gorsuch,  of  "Toddsbury,"  Ware  Parish,  Gloucester 
County,  Va.,  and  Baltimore  County,  Md.,  where  he  settled  in  1664;  was 
Burgess  from  Baltimore  County,  i674-'75 ;  and  died  at  sea  in  1676.  He 
patented  land  in  Elizabeth  City  County  in  1647,  and  in  Gloucester  in  1664, 
and  probably  was  a  son  of  Robert  Todd,  who  was  mentioned  in  the  York 
County  records  for  1642  who  bought  land  in  Gloucester  in  1652. 

Another  point  in  favor  of  the  assumption  that  Mrs.  Carter's  father, 
Wm.  Todd  of  King  and  Queen,  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Todd,  Sr.,  of 
"Toddsbury,"  is  that  Thos.  Todd,  Jr.,  of  "Toddsbury,"  patented  land  in 
King  and  Queen  in  1696,  and  in  1709  his  son  William  married  Martha 
Vicaries  and  settled  in  King  and  Queen  County,  where  he  died  in  1736, 
and  was  the  founder  of  the  distinguished  Todd  family  of  "The  Mount," 
on  the  upper  Mattaponi.  See  "Todd  Family  Chart"  by  Mr.  Stanard  in 
the  Virgnia  Historical  Magazine,  Vol.  III. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  273 

"Toddsbury,"  the  Gloucester  home  of  the  Todds,  is  said  to  be  probably 
the  oldest  colonial  home  now  standing  in  Gloucester  County,  that  Virginia 
county  that  has  been  noted  for  generations  for  its  splendid  old  homes 
and  hospitality.  It  is  a  very  quaint  old  brick  house,  and  contains  much 
beautiful  panelling  and  deep,  recessed  windows. 

Anne  Gorsuch,  wife  of  the  first  Thomas  Todd  of  Virginia,  and  ances- 
tress of  the  Virginia  Todds,  was  a  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Gorsuch  of 
Walkhorne  in  Hertfordshire,  and  his  wife,  Ann  Lovelace  a  sister  of  Sir 
Richard  Lovelace,  poet  and  cavalier,  who  sang:  ,    ; 

t  ;■-,'■    "-■ 
"Tell  me  not,  sweet,  I  am  unkind, 
That  from  the  nunnery 
Of  thy  chaste  breast  and  quiet  mind 
To  war  and  arms  I  fly. 

"True  a  new  mistress  now  I  chase, 
The  first  foe  in  the  field, 
And  with  a  stronger  faith  embrace 
A  sword,  a  horse,  a  shield. 

"Yet  this  nconstancy  is  such 
As  you,  too,  shall  adore ; 
I  could  not  love  thee,  dear,  so  much 
Loved  I  not  honor  more." 

Ann  Lovelace  was  the  daughter  of  Sir  William  Lovelace  and  Ann 
Barne.  Sir  Wm.  Lovelace  was  a  great-great-grandson  of  Launcelot  Love- 
lace, who  owned  Hever  Castle,  Kingsdown.  The  wife  of  one  Wm.  Love- 
lace, Anne  Lewis,  was  burned  at  Canterbury.  One  Richard  Lovelace,  an- 
cestor of  Mrs.  Todd,  was  pardoned  in  1450  for  joining  Jack  Cade's  rebel- 
lion. Anne  Barne,  the  grandmother  of  Mrs.  Todd  was  the  daughter  of 
Sir  Wm.  Barne  of  Woolwich,  Kent,  who  possessed  Borstall  Manor  and 
Plumstead,  dating  from  Henry  VII.  in  the  Barne  family.  The  wife  of 
Sir  Wm.  Barne  was  Anne  Sandys,  daughter  of  Sir  Edwin  Sandys  of  St. 
Bees,  Lancashire,  and  Archbishop  of  York,  and  sister  of  George  Sandys, 
the  first  Virginian  poet,  who  made  his  verses  at  Jamestown  in  the  early 
days  of  the  colony.  Sir  Wm.  Barne  was  a  son  of  Sir  George  Barne,  a 
member  of  the  London  Company.  The  above  data  furnished  by  Mrs.  Sally 
Nelson  Robins  in  an  article  in  the  Richmond  Times-Dispatch. 

The  records  of  King  and  Queen  and  Caroline  having  been 
destroyed,  nothing  further  of  John  Carter,  Sr.,  can  be  learned. 


274       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

John  Carter,  Sr.,  had  issue  by  his  third  wife,  Margaret  Todd, 
as  follows : 

i.  Robert  Carter,  of  King  and  Queen. 

2.  William  Carter,  of  Caroline,  died  after  1770. 

3.  James  Carter,  died  unmarried  after  1760. 

4.  John  Carter,  II,  probably  eldest  son,  died  in  1783. 

Carter  Family — King  and  Queen  Branch. 

1.  Robert  Carter,  of  King  and  Queen  county.  Owing  to  the 
loss  of  the  county  records  no  positive  data  can  be  gotten  of  him, 
but  he  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  Robert  Carter  who  was 
married  about  1740-1750  to  Mary  Collier,  daughter  of  John  and 
Ann  Epes  Collier,  of  "Porto  Bello,"  King  and  Queen  county. 

Collier  Excursus. 

The  first  of  the  King  and  Queen  County  Collier  family  was  William 
Collier,  "Citizen  and  Weaver  of  London,"  who  came  to  York  County,  Va., 
in  1670,  and  later  settled  in  New  Kent  County,  where  in  1675  he  appears 
as.  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  county  militia.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the 
ancestor  of  a  numerous  progeny  in  the  counties  of  New  Kent,  King  Wil- 
liam, King  and  Queen  and  Charles  City.  Among  his  sons  was  Charles 
Collier  of  King  and  Queen,  born  in  1660,  probably  in  England,  and  died 
in  King  and  Queen  in  1735.  He  had  a  son  John  Collier  (shown  by  will  of 
John  Collier,  Jr.,  probated  in  Hanover  in  1749),  who  was  born  in  1685 
and  died  in  1765. — Dates  from  "Colonial  Families  of  the  Southern  States." 

John  Collier,  Sr.,  was  a  vestryman,  and  in  a  list  of  King  and  Queen 
militia,  June  12,  1707,  was  a  captain  of  foot.  This  is  also  shown  by  a 
patent  he  had  for  103  acres  in  King  and  Queen  in  1711-  The  "Colonial 
Families  of  the  Southern  States"  says  that  Capt.  John  Collier  married, 
(1)  Elizabeth  Ballard,  daughter  of  Capt.  Thomas  Ballard,  a  Burgess  from 
James  City  County  in  1666;  (2)  a  Miss  Gaines;  and  (3)  Nancy,  daugh-  , 
ter  of  Col.  Francis  Eppes.  The  authority  for  these  marriages  is  not  given, 
but  the  will  of  his  son,  John,  Jr.,  would  seem  to  bear  out  the  last  two,  as 
he  mentions  his  "sister-in-law"  (step-sister)  Martha  Gaines,  which  indi- 
cates that  the  second  wife  was  a  Mrs.  Gaines  instead  of  Miss  Gaines ;  he 
also  mentions  his  mother-in-law  (step-mother)  Ann  Collier — the  names 
Ann  and  Nancy  often  being  applied  to  the  same  person.  A  suit  in  the  old 
General  Court  records  for  1722  shows  that  John  Collier,  Jun's.  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  Francis  and  Elizabeth  Ironmonger;  so  if  Capt.  John 
married  Elizabeth  Ballard,  Mrs.  Gaines  and  Ann  Eppes,  he  must  have  had 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  275 

four  wives.  Mary  Collier,  said  to  have  been  a  daughter  of  Capt.  John  by 
his  last  wife,  Ann  Eppes,  married  Robert  Carter  and  had  issue,  three  sons 
and  three  daughters. 

5.  John  Carter,  no  data. 

6.  James  Carter,  no  data. 

7.  William  Carter,  no  data. 

8.  Daughter,  married  a  Mr.  Meredith. 

9.  Daughter,  married  a  Mr.  White. 

10.  Daughter,  married  a  Mr.  Phillips. 

Carter  Family — Caroline  Branch. 

2.  William  Carter,  probably  named  for  his  grandfather,  Wil- 
liam Todd,  appears  in  the  old  order  books  of  Caroline  county 
in  various  suits,  for  and  against,  between  the  years  1745  and 
1770.  Xo  other  data  can  be  gotten  of  him  from  the  records.  But 
we  have  the  statement  of  Mr.  Sutton  that  he  left  descendants 
in  Caroline.  The  genealogist  is  hampered  in  his  account  of  the 
Carters  of  Caroline,  not  only  by  the  irreparable  loss  of  the  county 
records,  but  aLo  by  the  fact  that  besides  John  and  William  Car- 
ter, sons  of  John  Carter  of  King  and  Queen,  there  were  settled 
in  Caroline  at  the  same  time,  George  Carter,  of  Lancaster,  1750- 
1785,  a  cousin  of  the  first  two,  who  had  a  big  family,  and  whose 
son,  John,  married  and  settled  in  Caroline  about  the  time  his 
father  and  the  rest  of  the  family  removed  to  Halifax,  in  1785. 
There  was  also  in  Caroline  between  1760  and  1775  Owen  Carter 
and  Griffin  Carter,  of  an  Essex  county  family. 

The  Carters  now  in  the  county  cannot  go  further  back  than 
1800  in  their  family  records,  but  would  seem  to  be  descendants 
of  William  Carter. 

The  marriage  register  shows  the  following  marriages  of  Car- 
ters who  cannot  be  placed  in  the  line,  but  probably  are  descend- 
ants of  William  C. 

John  Carter  and  Nancy  Carter,  May  19.  1786.  John  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  the  son  of  George  Carter,  who  removed  from 
Caroline  in  1785,  but  his  wife  was  probably  a  daughter  of 
William. 

Molly  Carter  married  Banjamin  Murrah,  Oct.  24,  1787. 


276       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Lucy  Carter  married  Thomas  Reynolds,  Dec.  25,    1794. 

Joseph  Carter  married  Nelly  Carter  Feb.  2,  1802. 

John  Carter  married  Catharine  Timberlake,  Feb.  4,^801. 

Phillip  Carter  married  Betsy  Carter  Dec.  14,  1803. 

The  other  Carters  in  the  marriage  register  can  be  placed  fairly 
accurately. 

There  was  a  George  Carter,  of  Caroline,  who  bought  land  in 
Orange  county  in  1789,  which  was  sold  by  the  executors  of 
George  Carter,  deceased,  of  Caroline,  on  Feb.  27,  1797.  This 
George  Carter  was  not  the  George  Carter  who  settled  in  Caroline 
about  1750,  nor  his  son  George,  but  may  have  been  a  son  of 
William. 

Philip  Carter,  who  married  Betsy  Carter,  Dec.  14,  1803,  was 
probably  a  younger  son  or  grandson  of  William  Carter,  and  is 
supposed  to  have  been  the  same  Philip  Carter  who  married  about 
1807  a  Miss  Hackney.  They  are  the  ancestors  of  the  present 
Carters  in  Caroline,  and  had  issue : 

11.  William  Carter  born  circa  1808. 

12.  Peter  Carter,  born  in  1810. 

13.  James  Carter,  born  in  1812,  died  1885. 

14.  Maria  Carter,  born  about  1814,  died  unmarried. 

15.  Phillip  Carter,  born  about   1816. 

11.  William  Carter,  removed  to  Alabama,  where  he  married 
a  half-breed  Indian  girl,  and  had  one  son,  Ross  Carter,  who  was 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Virginia  at  the  age  of  twenty, 
and  died  shortly  afterward. 

12.  Peter  Carter,  married  Sarah ,  and  settled  in 

Hanover  county.     They  had  issue :     Edward,  Hill,  James  and 
Mattie,  who  married  a  Mr.  Brock  and  lives  at  Ashland,  Va. 

13.  James  Carter,  third  son  of  Phillip  Carter,  was  married  in 
1843  m  Caroline  county,  to  Emeline  Garnett,  daughter  of  Phillip 
and  Nancy  Short  Garnett,  of  Caroline  county,  but  a  member  of 
the  Essex  county  Garnett  family,  which  is  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished families  of  Virginia.  James  and  Emeline  Garnett  Carter 
had  issue : 

16.  Luther  Carter,  married  Lucy  Haynes  and  has  issue  :  Lucy, 
B.,  William,  Emma,  Andrew,  Alice  and  Ruth. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  277 

17.  French  Carter,  d.  s.  p.  at  the  age  of  21  years. 

18.  Eugene  P.  Carter,  of  Sparta,  Va.,  He  married  (1)  a  Miss 
Carter  in  1881  and  had  issue:  Ivey  and  Ross;  (2)  in  1886  a 
Miss  Robinson,  and  had  issue:  Aubrey,  Mattie,  Benjamin  and 
Maria. 

19.  Sallie  Carter,  married  R.  S.  Parr,  and  has  issue:  Julian, 
Robert,  Leslie,  Harry  and  Ethel. 

20.  Florence  Carter,  married  Phillip  Catlett  and  has  issue  four 
sons. 

15.  Phillip  Carter,  married  Emeline  Penney  (  ?)  and  had  issue: 
Hallie,  Judson,  Ross,  William,  Rita,  Roland  and  Cora.  These 
all  live  in  Caroline  near  Zion  and  Deloso  postoffices. 

Mr.  Eugene  P.  Carter  writes  that  in  his  father's  lifetime  there 
was  a  Captain  John  Carter  who  was  quite  wealthy  and  lived  about 
four  miles  from  Bowling  Green.  "He  had  a  son,  Hugh  Mercer, 
and  three  daughters,  none  of  whom  married.  My  father  was  born 
in  1812  and  was  first  or  second  cousin  to  him."  He  must  have 
been  a  son  of  an  older  son  of  William  Carter,  or  possibly  his  son, 
as  all  the  Johns  in  the  family  of  William  Carter's  brother  John 
are  accounted  for,  until  after  that  period. 

Major  Benjamin  Alsop,  writing  in  1828  to  Mr.  Zacariah  Talia- 
ferro, of  South  Carolina,  says :  "Your  old  friend,  James  Carter, 
is  still  living  and  well  the  last  I  heard  of  him."  As  he  was  writ- 
ing of  Caroline  people,  this  James  Carter  was  probably  a  son  of 
William  Carter. 


Descendants  of  John  Carter  of  Caroline 
and  Spotsylvania 

4.  John  Carter,  son  of  John  and  Margaret  Todd  Carter,  was 
probably  born  in  King  and  Queen  county  about  171 5- 1720,  and 
died  at  his  home  on  the  Caroline-Spotsylvania  county  line  in  Nov., 
1783.  His  will  was  dated  May  9,  1778;  had  a  codicil  recognizing 
daughter  Elizabeth  Matilda,  born  after  the  will  was  made,  dated 
Oct.  13,  1783;  probated  in  Spotsylvania  Dec.  18,  1783;  sons  John 
and  William,  and  friends  Thomas  Colson  and  Joseph  Brock,  ex- 
ecutors. Son  Robert  Carter  to  have  a  hundred  pounds  for  his 
education ;  son  John  to  hold  in  trust  two  negroes  for  granddaugh- 
ter, Sarah  Kenyon  Thomas ;  son-in-law,  Rice  Curtis,  and  his  wife, 
Frances,  to  have  the  300  acres  of  land  upon  which  they  lived ; 
wife,  Hannah,  and  all  children  to  share  in  residuary  estate ;  his 
daughter,  Martha  Goodloe,  died  without  issue,  her  portion  was  to 
return  to  the  other  children. 

Capt.  John  Carter  appears  frequently  in  the  old  Court  records 
of  Caroline  between  1744  and  1775,  and  is  said  to  have  owned  a 
good  deal  of  land  in  that  county.  He  appears  first  in  the  Spotsyl- 
vania records  when  he  purchased  on  May  3,  1743,  140  acres  in  that 
county  from  Robt.  King  and  wife,  Mary  of  Orange,  and  Sept.  6, 
1743,  from  same  parties  150  acres,  and  in  1763  ''John  Carter, 
Gent.,"  from  "Rice  Curtis,  Gent."  594  acres.  July  17,  1773,  he 
purchased  two  tracts  of  land  from  the  executors  of  Owen  Thomas. 

Oct.  2,  1758,  John  Carter  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  the 
Spotsylvania  militia.  Oct.  2,  1759,  was  a  vestryman  in  St. 
George's  parish;  Oct.  20,  1768,  Capt.  John  Carter,  Sr..  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor  High  Sheriff  of  Spotsylvania ;  and  July 
17,  1772,  was  a  justice  of  the  county  court  (Crozier's  Abstracts  of 
Spotsylvania  records).  In  a  list  of  Slave  Owners  in  Spotsylvania 
County  in  1783,  Capt.  John  Carter,  Sen'r,  had  31.  The  above 
political  positions  would  seem  to  indicate  that  Capt.  Carter's  home 
was  on  the  Spotsylvania  side  of  his  plantation.     His  home  plan- 


Bex j.  Wilson  Aiken, 
'Somerset,"    Cumberland    County,   Va. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  279 

tation  is  said  to  have  been  about  twelve  miles  west  of  Bowling 
Green.  The  house  was  built  of  brick,  was  of  good  size  and  set  in 
a  large  grove  of  trees.  The  old  gentleman  is  said  to  have  lived 
in  considerable  style,  and  entertained  lavishly.  He  was  a  captain 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  as  stated  by  his  grandson,  Mr.  Near- 
borne  E.  Sutton,  in  an  account  of  the  family  he  prepared  in  1845 
for  his  cousins  in  South  Carolina— the  original  MSS.  is  now  owned 
by  Mrs.  J.  N.  Hook,  Clemson  College,  S.  C.  Mr.  Sutton  bases 
his  statement  upon  the  authority  of  his  mother,  a  daughter  of 
Capt.  Carter,  and  of  an  old  uncle  of  his,  a  Major  Sutton,  who  said 
that  he  had  served  in  the  Revolution  with  Capt.  Carter.  Mr. 
Sutton  is  also  the  authority  for  the  account  of  the  John  Carter 
family  of  King  and  Queen  and  Caroline  counties,  given  by  Mr. 
John  Carter,  of  Lancaster,  in  his  MSS.  account  of  the  family  in 
1858. 

In  the  division  of  his  estate  the  old  home  of  Capt.  Carter  and 
142  acres  around  it  fell  to  the  share  of  the  only  one  of  his  chil- 
dren who  removed  from  the  State — Mrs.  Margaret  Chew  Talia- 
ferro, of  South  Carolina.  In  1825  the  old  mansion  was  burned 
and  later  the  bricks  sold  for  other  purposes.  Maj.  Benj.  Alsop, 
Mr.  Taliaferro's  agent  in  Spotsylvania,  wrote  him  in  1827,  saying: 
"Your  place  is  truly  unlucky  after  the  mansion  house  was  burnt, 
Mrs.  Lucy  Taliaferro  repaired  the  Overseer's  house  and  lived  in 
that,  and  a  few  days  before  last  Christmas  it  took  fire  and  was 
burnt  down.  She  is  living  on  the  land  near  where  the  old  house 
stood,  has  put  a  chimney  to  the  carriage  house  and  is  living  in 
that  in  a  very  uncomfortable  manner."  He  continues :  "Mrs. 
Taliaferro  talks  very  much  of  coming  to  your  country  as  soon  as 
she  gets  her  matters  rounded  up."  .  .  .  "We  have  had  a  very 
Cold  Winter,  the  coldest  we  have  had  for  many  years,  and  at 
this  time  (March,  1827)  our  roads  are  almost  impassable." 

Capt.  John  Carter  was  married  twice,  both  wives  coming  from 
prominent  families  of  the  Old  Dominion — the  Armisteads  and 
Chews. 

He  married  first  about  i735-'40  Elizabeth  Armistead,  born 
March  28,  1716,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Sarah  Armistead,  of 
Richmond  County — Carter  MSS.,  1858. 


28o       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Armistead  Excursus. 

Francis  Armistead,  father  of  Elizabeth  Armistead  Carter,  died  in  Rich- 
mond County,  April  4,  1719,  where  his  will  was  probated,  and  leaves  his 
estate  to  wife  Sarah,  and  children, — Elizabeth  Armistead,  and  John  Armi- 
stead, born  Feb.  26,  1718,  and  in  default  of  surviving  issue  to  his  son  and 
daughter,  his  property  was  to  go  to  Francis  Armistead,  son  of  Ralph 
Armistead,  who  was  probably  his  brother.  Francis  Armistead's  place  in 
the  Armistead  family  of  Virginia  has  never  been  definitely  settled,  but  his 
line  of  descent  probably  should  be  as  follows : 

Francis  and  Ralph  Armistead  were  probably  sons  of  the  John  Armi- 
stead, whose  inventory  of  estate  was  recorded  in  Essex  County  in  1703 
with  Francis  Moore  as  executor.  He  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  John 
Armistead  who  was  married  in  Essex  County  (at  that  time  old  Rappa- 
hannock) in  i688-'89  to  Mary  Brown.  This  John  Armistead  was  probably 
a  son  of  a  Ralph  Armistead,  who  patented  land  in  Gloucester  County  in 
1678,  and  who  is  thought  to  have  been  a  son  of  William  Armistead,  the 
emigrant. 

William  Armistead,  the  progenitor  of  this  distinguished  Virginia  fam- 
ily, is  thought  to  have  been  a  son  of  Anthony  and  Frances  Thompson 
Armistead  of  Kirk  Deighton,  Yorkshire,  who  was  baptized  at  "All  Saints' 
Church,"  the  only  one  in  the  parish  of  Kirk  Deighton,  August  3,  1610. 
He  came  to  Virginia  about  1635  and  obtained  large  grants  of  land  in  Eliza- 
beth City  County,  subsequently  Gloucester  County,  where  he  died  prior  to 
1660.  This  William  Armistead  has  many  distinguished  descendants.  One 
of  his  sons  was  a  member  of  the  Council,  and  ancestor  of  President  Har- 
rison;  another  was  ancestor  of  President  Tyler;  his  only  daughter  mar- 
ried into  three  well-known  families — Aylmer,  Elliott,  and  Wormley.  A 
granddaughter,  Judith  Armistead,  was  the  first  wife  of  Robert  Carter  of 
Corotoman,  the  wealthiest  American  of  his  day. 

The  Armistead  arms  are :  "Or.  a  Chevron  between  three  points  of 
spears  sable,  tasseled  in  the  middle."  Crest :  "A  dexter  arm  in  armor 
embowed  ppr.  holding  the  butt  end  of  a  broken  spear."  Motto :  "Suivez 
raison."  See  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vol.  VI.,  and  Virginia 
Heraldica. 

Capt.  Carter  and  Elizabeth  Armistead  had  issue  two  sons  and 
six  daughters,  as  follows : 

21.  William  Carter,  born  circa  1740,  died  in  1802. 

22.  Elizabeth  Carter,  died  prior  to  1778,  leaving  daughter, 
Sarah  Kenyon  Thomas. 

23.  Frances  Carter,  married  Rice  Curtis  II. 

24.  Martha  Carter,  married  Robert  Goodloe,  no  issue  in  1778. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  281 

25.  Anne  Carter,  married  William  Heslop. 

26.  Margaret  Carter,  married  Capt.  John  Marshall. 
2"j.  Sarah  Carter,  married  William  Sutton. 

28.  John  Carter,  Jr.,  born  circa  1750,  died  after  1800. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Armistead  Carter  probably  died  about  1763-65, 
as  in  i767-'68  Capt.  Carter  married  Hannah  Chew,  the  fifth  child 
of  Capt.  John  and  Margaret  Beverley  Chew,  of  Spotsylvania 
County.  Of  the  marriage  of  Capt.  John  Carter,  Sr.,  and  Hannah 
Chew  there  was  issue : 

29.  Mary  Beverley  Carter,  married  Capt.  Richard  Stevens. 

30.  Margaret  Chew  Carter,  born  Jan.  14,  1771,  mar.  Zachariah 
Taliaferro. 

31.  Judith  Carter,  born  in  1773,  married  Joseph  Sutton. 

32.  Lucy  Carter,  born  in  1775,  married  Burton  Taliaferro. 

33.  Robert  Carter,  born  in  1777,  died  unmarried  prior  to  1827. 

34.  Elizabeth  Matilda  Carter,  born  in  1780,  died  prior  to  1827, 
unmarried. 

Chew  and  Beverley  Excursus. 

The  first  of  the  Chew  family  in  Virginia  was  John  Chew,  born  in  1598, 
and  died  in  1668,  said  to  have  been  of  a  Somerset  family.  He  came  to 
Virginia  about  1620,  and  in  1636  was  mentioned  by  the  governor  as  "one 
of  the  ablest  Merchants  in  Virginia."  He  settled  first  at  Hog  Island,  and 
was  the  Burgess  from  that  place  in  1623,  1624  and  1629;  and  for  York 
County  in  1642,  '43,  and  '44-  In  1624  he  had  a  deed  for  a  small  parcel  of 
land  near  his  dwelling  house  in  James  City.  His  wife's  name  was  Sarah, 
and  they  had  issue :  Samuel  Chew,  later  of  "Herrington,"  Maryland,  a 
justice,  burgess,  etc.,  in  that  colony,  and  ancestor  of  the  distinguished 
Chew  families  of  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania ;  John  Chew  and  Joseph 
Chew,  ancestors  of  the  Virgnia  family.  John  Chew,  Sr.,  was  a  justice  of 
York  County,  Va.,  1634  to  1652.  and  about  the  latter  date  removed  to 
Maryland,  where  he  died  in  1668. 

Joseph  Chew,  born  1641,  died  1716,  in  Anne  Arundel  Co.,  Md.,  where 
he  removed  from  York  Co.,  Va.,  after  1659,  married  a  daughter  of  a  Mr. 
Larkin  of  Annapolis.  They  had  a  son,  Larkin  Chew,  born  1686,  died  1729, 
returned  to  Virginia  about  1700,  and  lived  subsequently  in  counties  of 
King  and  Queen,  Essex,  and  Spotsylvania.  Justice  of  Peace  of  Spotsyl- 
vania in  1722;  Sheriff,  i727-'28;  Burgess,  1723  and  '26.  Will  prob.  April  1, 
1729.  Married  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  Roy  of  Port  Royal,  Va.  Had 
issue:  1,  Thomas,  justice  of  the  peace,  sheriff,  etc.,  Spotsylvania;  2,  Anne; 
3,  John,  of  whom  later;  4,  Larkin,  justice  of  the  peace,  sheriff,  etc. 


282       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

John  Chew,  justice  of  the  peace  in  1731  of  Spotsylvania,  married,  Jan. 
26,  1729,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Capt.  Harry  and  Elizabeth  Smith  Beverley 
of  "Newlands,"  Spotsylvania,  christened  in  Middlesex,  March  27,  1704. 
Their  daughter,  Hannah,  married  Capt.  John  Carter,  circa,  1767. 

Chew  Arms :  "Gu-  a  chevron  arg.,  on  a  chief  az.  three  leopards'  faces 
or." 

Beverley. 

The  Beverleys  are  one  of  the  most  distinguished  and  wealthy  families 
of  Virginia's  ancient  aristocracy.  The  first  of  the  family  in  Virginia  was 
Maj.  Robert  Beverley  of  Beverley,  Yorkshire,  who  settled  in  Middlesex 
County  Va.,  about  1663,  where  he  died  March  16,  1687,  leaving  an  estate  of 
more  than  fifty  thousand  acres  and  a  large  personal  property.  In  1670 
he  was  elected  clerk  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  and  from  then  until  his 
death  took  a  most  active  and  varied  part  in  the  political  turmoils  of  Vir- 
ginia at  that  time.  In  Bacon's  Rebellion  he  was  "the  most  active  and  suc- 
cessful commander  on  Berkeley's  side."  His  first  wife,  Mary,  was  the 
widow  of  George  Keeble.  She  is  buried  in  Christ  Church  yard,  Middle- 
sex, and  the  slab  over  her  grave  states : 

Here  lyeth  interred  the  Bodi  of 

Mrs.  Mary  Beverley,  wife  of 
Maj.  Robert  Beverley. 
Mother  of  nine  sons  &  three  daughters 
Who  departed  this  Life  the  1st  Day  of 
June  1678  aged  fortie  one  yeares  &  three 
Months,  having  been  married  to  him 

12  years  &  2  months — and  was 
A  careful  Mother  teaching  Vertuous  Life 
Happy  and  making  happy  when  a  wife 
Religious  to  Example,  may  all  strive 
To  imitate  her  vertues  whilst  alive. 

One  of  her  sons  was  Capt.  Harry  Beverley,  who  was  a  justice  of  Mid- 
dlesex in  1700 ;  surveyor  of  King  and  Queen  and  King  William,  1702-14; 
one  of  the  chief  surveyors  of  the  Virginia-North  Carolina  line  in  1713; 
and  presiding  justice  of  Spotsylvania  Court  for  a  number  of  years.  In 
1716  Governor  Spotswood  gave  him  command  of  a  sloop  fitted  out  to  go 
to  the  Bahama  Islands  in  search  of  Spanish  wrecks  and  pirates.  They  were 
captured  by  a  Spanish  Man  of  War  and  taken  to  Vera  Cruz,  where  sev- 
eral of  the  men  died  of  privation.  After  seven  months,  Capt.  Beverley 
escaped,  and  reached  Virginia  again  in  1717.     In  1720  removed  his  family 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  283 

from  Middlesex  to  Spotsylvania,  where  he  died  in  1731.  His  wife,  Eliza- 
beth, was  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Smith  of  "Brandon,"  Mid- 
dlesex, and  granddaughter  of  Maj.-Gen.  Robert  Smith  of  "Brandon,"  who 
was  for  a  number  of  years  prior  to  his  death  in  1686,  a  member  of  the 
Council- 

The  Beverley  book  plate  and  seals  give  the  arms  as:  Arg.  a  chevron 
sa.  on  a  chief  of  the  second,  three  bulls  heads  cabossed  of  the  first." 
In  1739,  Wm.  Beverley  of  "Blandfield"  sent  his  London  merchant  an  ex- 
pensive seal  to  be  re-cut.  It  was  cut  in  1723  and  had  the  arms  as  given 
above,  but — "Ye  arms  my  father  used  are  a  Red  Rose  seeded  and  barbed 
on  a  field  ermine  with  an  Unicorn's  head  for  ye  crest,  and  not  the  bulls 
heads."  For  extensive  and  interesting  history  of  this  family,  see  Mr. 
Wm.  G.  Stanard's  history  of  the  Beverleys  in  the  Virginia  Historical 
Magazine,  Vol.  II.    and  Vol.  III. 

21.  William  Carter,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Armistead 
Carter,  married  prior  to  1761  Frances  Curtis,  daughter  of  Rice 
Curtis,  II,  "Gent.,"  of  Spotsylvania  County,  as  shown  by  a  deed 
to  Wm.  Carter  from  Rice  Curtis,  HI,  on  Xov.  20,  1761,  which 
states  that  a  marriage  had  already  taken  place  between  Wm.  Car- 
ter and  Rice  Curtis,  Sr.'s  daughter,  Frances. 

William  Carter  inherited  a  good  deal  of  land  and  other  prop- 
erty from  his  father,  but  in  1783,  prior  to  his  father's  death,  he 
appeared  in  a  list  of  Spotsylvania  slave  owners  as  the  owner  of 
ten  servants.  His  will  was  probated  in  Spotsylvania  County  Xov. 
26,  1802,  and  left  his  estate  to  his  wife,  Frances  Carter,  grand- 
daughter Polly  Carter,  daughter  of  son  John,  sister  Elizabeth 
Carter,  stepmother  Hannah  Carter,  and  the  following  children : 

35.  Lucy  Carter  married  a  Mr.  Aylett  prior  to  1802. 

36.  Elizabeth  Belinda  Carter. 

37.  Sarah  Carter,  wife  of  Edmund  Foster. 

38.  Frances  Carter,  wife  of  Rice  Connor. 

39.  Rice  Curtis  Carter. 

40.  John  Carter,  died  in  181 5. 

41.  Guilford  D.  Carter. 

42.  Kenyon  Carter. 

43.  Abraham  Carter. 

44.  A  daughter  who  married  James  Hume,  as  shown  by  a  deed 
made  Sept.  15,  1794,  by  William  Carter  to  James  Hume  for  four 


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negroes  to  be  held  in  trust  for  William  Lewis  Hume,  son  of  the 
said  James  Hume  and  grandson  of  the  said  Wm.  Carter. 

I  have  no  data  of  any  of  the  descendants  of  Wm.  Carter  except 
of  his  son  John. 

40.  John  Carter,  son  of  Wm.  and  Frances  Curtis  Carter,  had 
a  deed  from  his  father  Sept.  1,  1789,  for  216  acres  of  land  in  Berke- 
ley Parish,  Spotsylvania.  John  Carter  was  married  in  1788  to 
Mary  Herndon,  born  May  4,  1770,  died  after  1834,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Herndon,  of  "Mattaponi,"  Spotsylvania,  and  his  second 
wife,  Mary  Minor,  whom  he  married  Aug.  15,  1765.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Carr  Minor. 

Herndon  Excursus. 

Joseph  Herndon,  born  May  1,  1737,  died  October  28,  1810,  lived  on  a 
beautiful  estate  called  "Mattaponi,"  six  miles  southeast  of  Fredericksburg. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  and  after  his  return 
to  Virginia  took  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs.  Was  vestryman,  col- 
lector of  levies,  etc.,  in  St.  George's  parish ;  and  was  one  of  the  citizens 
who  took  action  June  24,  1774,  regarding  the  Boston  Post  Bill.  April  28, 
1775,  he  was  a  signer  of  the  famous  Fredericksburg  Resolutions  drafted 
by  Peyton  Randolph  and  Edmund  Pendleton,  thus  more  than  a  year  before 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  he,  with  the  other  signers,  banded  them- 
selves together  "to  resist  to  the  death  all  attempts  against  their  rights  from 
whatsoever  quarter  they  might  be  assailed,"  and  pledged  themselves  to 
reassemble  at  a  moment's  notice  "by  force  of  arms  to  defend  the  laws, 
the  liberties,  and  the  rights  of  this  or  any  other  sister  colony  from  unjust 
and  wicked  invasion,"  and  concluded  with  "God  save  the  liberties  of 
America." 

He  was  the  third  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  Brock  Herndon — daughter 
of  Jos.  Brock.  Edward  Herndon,  died  1759,  lived  on  the  Brock  Road, 
where  a  century  later  the  battle  of  the  wilderness  was  fought.  He  was 
sheriff  of  Spotsylvania  in  1734,  '38,  '39,  and  '40,  and  was  a  son  of  Edward 
Herndon,  born  1678,  died  1742,  of  New  Kent  County,  and  his  wife  Mary 
Waller.  Edward  Herndon,  Sr.,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Wm.  Herndon,  who 
patented  lands  in  St.  Stephen  Parish,  New  Kent,  in  1674  and  1677,  and  his 
wife  Catharine  Digges,  youngest  daughter  of  Edward  Digges,  Governor  of 
Virginia  in  1655.     See  Virginia  Historical  Magazine,  Vol.  IX. 

John  Carter's  will  was  probated  in  Spotsylvania  Oct.  2,  181 5, 
with  son  James  Carter  and  friend,  John  W.  Herndon,  executors. 
Wife  Mary  was  to  have  all  his  property,  both  real  and  personal,  as 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  285 

long  as  she  remained  a  widow.  Daughter  Polly  to  have  on  her 
marriage  a  negro  man,  horse,  cow  and  calf,  six  head  of  sheep  and 
a  bed  and  furniture.  After  wife's  death  or  remarriage  the  rest 
of  the  property  was  to  be  divided  "'among  all  my  children,  except 
my  daughter  Polly."'  Sons  John  and  Joseph  to  account  for  $150 
each.  It  is  not  known  if  he  had  other  sons  than  the  three  named 
above  or  other  daughters  than  Polly.  Polly  Carter  was  married 
on  Sept.  24,  1834,  to  Capt.  Thomas  M.  Horn.  Xo  other  data  of 
this  family. 

23.  Frances  Carter,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Elizabeth 
Carter,  married  Rice  Curtis,  III.,  born  July  30,  1729,  in  Middlesex 
county.  He  must  have  been  at  least  ten  years  older  than  his  wife, 
Frances  Carter,  who  may  have  been  his  second  wife.  Aug.  2.J, 
1779,  Rice  Curtis,  III,  made  a  deed  to  his  children  and  wife  named 
as  follows :  Wife  Frances  Curtis,  children — Nancy,  John,  Eliza- 
beth, Mary,  Frances,  Margaret,  George  Bartemous,  and  James 
Curtis.  He  was  the  owner  of  8  servants  in  Spotsylvania  County 
in  1783.     No  other  data  of  Frances  Carter  Curtis'  descendants. 

Curtis  Excursus. 

The  Curtis  family  was  quite  numerous  in  Middlesex  and  Gloucester 
Counties  in  the  17th  and  18th  centuries  and  prominent  as  vestrymen,  jus- 
tices, officers  in  the  militia,  etc.  A  thorough  search  of  the  Middlesex 
records  should  give  some  iteresting  data  of  this  family,  which  probably 
originated  with  Major  Thomas  and  Avarilla  Curtis  of  Ware  Parish,  Glou- 
cester County.  In  Middlesex  there  was  a  Mr.  Charles  Curtis,  a  Mr.  James 
Curtis,  a  Mr.  Giles  Curtis,  and  a  Mr.  Christopher  Curtis  prior  to  1685, 
who  were  probably  sons  of  Major  Thomas  of  Gloucester  County,  as  the 
names  of  Thomas  and  Avarilla  appear  in  the  Middlesex  Curtis  family. 
Rice  Curtis  appears  first  in  the  Middlesex  register  in  1704,  and  probably 
was  a  son  of  James  or  Christopher  Curtis  mentioned  above,  though  he 
may  have  been  a  younger  son  of  Major  Thomas  of  Gloucester. 

Rice  Curtis  I.  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  had  a  son  Rice  Curtis  II..  bap- 
tized at  Christ  Church,  September  30,  1704.  This  family  of  Curtis  moved 
to  Spotsylvania  after  1730,  where  Rice  Curtis,  Sr.  (I.),  was  a  vestryman 
of  St.  George's  Parish  in  1738.  His  will  was  probated  in  1753,  and  names 
wife  Elizabeth  and  son  Rice.  I  have  lost  my  notes  of  the  Curtis  wills  in 
Spotsylvania,  so  cannot  give  the  other  legatees. 


286       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Rice  Curtis  II.,  born  in  1704,  and  his  wife  Martha  had  three  children 
born  in  Middlesex  before  they  removed  to  Spotsylvania.  They  were : 
Elizabeth,  born  Aug.  19,  1724;  Mary,  born  March  18,  1725;  and  Rice 
Curtis  III.,  born  July  30,  1729.  After  they  removed  to  Spotsylvania,  Rice 
Curtis,  Jr.  ((II.),  was  a  vestryman  of  St-  George's  in  1741,  and  April  3, 
l750,  was  commissioned  a  Major  of  Horse  in  the  Spotsylvania  Militia. 
The  will  of  Rice  Curtis  II.  was  probated  in  Spotsylvania  in  1774,  and 
names  son  Rice  Curtis  III.   (notes  of  will  lost),  and  others. 

Rice  Curtis  III.,  born  in  1729,  is  supposed  to  have  married  Frances 
Carter  about  i7S5-'6o.     He  died  sometime  after  1783. 

24.  Martha  Carter,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Elizabeth 
Armistead  Carter  married  Robert  Goodloe,  and  had  no  issue  when 
her  father  made  his  will  in  1778.  The  Goodloes  were  a  family  of 
excellent  standing  in  Spotsylvania  and  Middlesex,  and  later  in 
Kentucky,  where  a  Mr.  Carter  Goodloe  was  quite  prominent,  and 
from  his  name  was  probably  a  descendant  of  Martha  Carter  and 
Robert  Goodloe,  of  Spotsylvania. 

25.  Anne  Carter,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried William  Heslop,  and  had  one  son,  Horace,  and  probably  other 
children.     No  other  data  of  them. 

26.  Margaret  Carter,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Elizabeth, 
probably  named  for  her  grandmother,  Margaret  Todd  Carter,  mar- 
ried Capt.  John  Marshall,  of  Caroline,  said  to  have  been  a  son  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  Williams  Marshall,  of  Caroline  County. 
Capt.  John  died  before  1794,  as  in  that  year  Margaret  Marshall, 
widow,  joined  her  brother  Capt.  John  Carter  and  his  wife  Mary 
in  a  deed  for  land  left  to  them  by  their  father,  Capt.  John  Carter, 
Sr.  An  old  letter  of  Maj.  Alsop's  mentions  a  son  of  John  and 
Margaret  Carter  Marshall,  named  Horace,  who  was  a  bankrupt  in 
1827,  and  at  time  living  in  Philadelphia.  No  data  of  other  chil- 
dren. 

Marshall  Excursus. 

A  Capt.  John  Marshall,  born  in  1596  in  England,  came  to  Virgnia  about 
1650,  and  settled  in  Westmoreland  County.  He  is  said  to  have  had  sons 
Thomas,  born  in  1655,  and  John,  born  in  1660.  I  believe  that  either  a 
generation  has  been  omitted  or  else  the  birth  of  Capt.  Marshall  placed  too 
early. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  287 

Thomas  Marshall,  born  in  1655,  married  Martha  Jane  Pendleton,  and 
died  in  Westmoreland  County,  where  his  will  was  probated  May  31,  1704. 
They  had  issue:  William,  married  Eliabeth  Williams,  and  settled  in  Caro- 
line; Thomas,  born  in  1678;  and  John,  born  in  1682,  who  was  the  grand- 
father of  Chief  Justice  John  Marshall. 

William  Marshall,  born  in  Westmoreland  in  1672,  died  in  Caroline 
after  1730.  His  son,  William,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Caroline  August  27,  1730, 
and  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  eldest  son.  Capt.  John  was  probably 
born  about  1735-     See  ''Colonial  Families  of  the  Southern  States." 


Carter  Family — Sutton   Branch. 

27.  Sarah  Carter,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Elizabeth  Car- 
ter, married  William  Sutton,  of  Caroline  county,  and  had  issue : 

45.  Bettie  Sutton,  married  a  Mr.  Chapman  and  had  issue: 
James,  Reuben,  Robert,  Martha  and  Lucy. 

46.  Sarah  Darley  Sutton,  married  Robert  Lewis,  son  of  Dr. 
John  Lewis,  of  Spotsylvania,  and  brother  of  Drs.  Zachariah  and 
John  Lewis.  Jr.,  and  had  issue:  Cadwalader,  Sarah  married  Ar- 
mistead  O.  Sutton,  and  Jane  married  Augustus  Grymes. 

47.  John  Carter  Sutton,  of  "Pine  Forest,"  on  the  Mattaponi. 
He  was  married  twice.  First  to  his  first  cousin,  Maria  Chew 
Sutton,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Judith  Carter  Sutton,  by  whom 
he  had  a  son,  John  Oliver  Sutton.  Maria  C.  Sutton  died  in  1813, 
and  he  married  Elizabeth  Page  Pendleton,  only  child  of  Edmund 
Pendleton,  of  "Edmundton,"  and  his  first  wife,  Jane  Burwell 
Page  (married  in  1794).  daughter  of  John  Byrd  Page. 

Pexdleton  Excursus. 

The  above  named  Edmund  Pendleton  was  the  favorite  grandnephew  of 
the  famous  jurist,  Edmund  Pendleton,  who  gave  him  the  plantation  called 
''Edmundton."  He  was  born  in  1774,  and  was  the  eldest  son  of  Edmund 
Pendleton  of  "White  Plains,"  Caroline  County,  and  his  wife  Mildred  Pol- 
lard. Edmund  Pendleton,  Sr.,  born  1750,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Hon.  John 
Pendleton  ad  his  first  wife,  a  Miss  James.  Of  him.  Rev.  Philip  Slaughter 
wrote :  "John.  4th  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Taylor  Pendleton,  born  1719, 
died  1799-  was  in  his  58th  year  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  War; 
he  held  various  offices  of  trust  and  honour  in  the  Colony  of  Virginia,  and 
in  the  Senate.  He  was  appointed  by  a  Convention  of  Delegates  of  the 
Counties  and  Corporations  of  Virginia  at  Richmond  on  Monday,  July  17, 


288       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

1775,  to  sign  a  large  issue  of  Treasury  notes."  "The  issue  was  about 
£350,000  and  the  ordinance  read :  'of  the  notes  to  be  issued  50,000  shall  be 
of  the  denomination  of  one  shilling  and  shall  be  signed  by  John  Pendleton, 
Jr.  Gentleman,  which  notes  shall  be  on  the  best  paper.'  "  Later  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor  of  Virginia  a  judge  of  the  court.  John  Pendle- 
ton was  the  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Taylor  Pendleton  and  grandson  of 
Philip  Pendleton,  born  in  England  in  1650,  and  came  to  Virginia  in  1674, 
etc.  For  am  interesting  account  of  the  Pendletons  see  Slaughter's  history 
of  St.  Mark'sParish.  The  Pendleton  arms  are:  "Gu.  an  inescutcheon  arg. 
between  d  escallop  shells  in  saltire  or.  Crest :  On  a  chapeau  gu.  turned  up 
ermine  a  demi-dragon,  wings  inverted  or.  holding  an  escallop  shell  arg-" 

John  Carter  Sutton  and  Elizabeth  Page  Pendleton  had  issue : 
Edmund  Pendleton,  William  Carter,  Hugh  Carter,  Norborne  E., 
John  Carter,  Robert  W.,  Patrick  H.,  Sarah  Jane,  Lucy  Carter, 
Anne  Lewis,  and  Betty  Burwell. 

48.  Norborne  E.  Sutton,  an  attorney  at  law  of  Bowling  Green, 
Caroline  County.  In  1834  he  was  the  postmaster  at  Bowling 
Green,  and  in  1845  represented  his  county  in  the  Virginia  Senate. 
He  is  the  authority  for  the  account  of  the  Caroline  Carters  in  the 
Carter  MSS.  of  1858,  and  of  an  account  of  them  sent  in  1845  to 
his  South  Carolina  cousins. 

About  i827-'30  he  was  married  to  Dorothea  Washington,  born 
Nov.  11,  1808,  and  died  in  1844,  daughter  of  George  and  Eliza- 
beth Courts  Washington,  of  "Woodpecker,"  Caroline  County. 

Washington  Excuftsus. 

George  Washington,  father  of  Mrs.  Dorothea  Washington  Sutton,  was 
born  July  8,  1775,  married  Elizabeth  Courts,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Courts, 
on  July  I,  1794;  served  as  major  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  died  at  the 
family  home  in  Caroline,  July  15,  1815,  at  which  time  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Virginia  Senate.  He  was  the  second  son  of  John  Washington,  who 
married  in  1770  Elizabeth  Buckner,  and  is  thought  to  have  been  the  John 
Washington  who  lived  in  King  George  County,  who  was  one  of  the  County 
Committee  of  Safety  in  1775. 

If  the  ancestry  of  all  the  Washington  families  of  the  Rappahannock 
^nd  Piedmont  region  of  Virginia  are  ever  traced  back,  it  is  almost  a  cer- 
tainty that  they  will  go  to  the  Westmoreland  Washingtons  or  emigrant 
ancestors  of  General  George  Washington.  Just  as  those  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  State  who  have  so  long  been  a  bone  of  contention  to  genealo- 
gists  in  connection  with  the  Lanier   family  will   trace  back  to   emigrant 


Mrs.   Archibald  M.  Aiken, 

nee   Mary  E.   Yates, 
Danville,    Va. 

(^See    page    118.) 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  289 

ancestors  in  Surry  County,  contemporaneous  with,  but  so  far  as  known  not 
related  to  the  Westmoreland  family. 

Late  in  life  Mr.  Norborne  E.  Sutton  removed  to  Texas,  where 
he  died.     It  is  thought  that  he  had  no  issue. 


John  Carter,  of 
"Brandywine,"  King  William  County. 

28.  John  Carter,  Jr.  (III.)?  youngest  son  of  Capt.  John  and 
Elizabeth  Armistead,  born  about  1750,  was  sent  to  England  to  be 
educated,  and  from  strong  circumstantial  evidence  is  thought  to 
be  the  John  Carter  who,  after  the  Revolution,  settled  on  a  planta- 
tion in  King  William  County,  called  "Brandywine,"  where  he 
died. 

The  evidence  that  seems  to  indicate  that  John  Carter,  of 
"Brandywine,"  and  John  Carter,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Carter, 
were  one  and  the  same,  is  as  follows :  The  approximate  year  of 
birth  is  about  the  same ;  descendants  of  John  of  "Brandywine" 
say  that  he  married  Mary  St.  John;  the  Carter  MSS.  of  1858  says 
that  John  Carter,  Jr.,  of  Caroline-Spotsylvania,  married  Miss 
Sinjon,  which  is  taken  as  the  phonetic  spelling  of  St.  John,  and 
deeds  in  1784  and  1794  show  that  John  Carter,  Jr.'s  wife  was 
named  Mary;  John  Carter,  of  "Brandywine,"  named  his  eldest 
son  Curtis;  William  Carter,  brother  of  John,  Jr.,  married  Frances 
Curtis,  and  had  a  son  named  Curtis,  and  Frances  Carter,  sister  of 
John,  Jr.,  married  Rice  Curtis ;  other  family  names  in  both  fami- 
lies are  similar,  such  as  William,  John  and  Thomas.  John  Carter, 
Jr.,  disappeared  from  the  Spotsylvania  records  some  time  prior  to 
1800.  So  that  in  lieu  of  proof  to  the  contrary  John  Carter,  Jr., 
of  Caroline-Spotsylvania,  and  John  Carter  of  King  William,  will 
be  considered  as  one  and  the  same  person. 

Sept.  18,  1777,  John  Carter,  Jr.,  was  commissioned  a  captain  in 
the  Spotsylvania  Militia.  In  1783,  before  the  death  of  his  father, 
he  was  the  owner  of  nine  servants.  In  1784  John  Carter  and  wife 
Mary  with  his  brother  Wm.  and  sisters  and  their  husbands  joined 
in  a  deed  of  partition  of  their  father's  lands.  May  1,  1794,  Capt. 
John  Carter  and  wife  Mary  (residence  not  stated)  and  sister  Mar- 


290       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

garet,  widow,  signed  a  deed  to  Dr.  Robert  Wellford  for  a  small 
tract  of  land  formerly  belonging  to  their  father,  Capt.  John  Carter, 
Sr.,  in  Spotsylvania  county.  There  is  no  will  or  other  record  of 
this  John  Carter  to  be  found  in  Spotsylvania. 

There  are  two  traditions  among  the  descendants  of  John  Carter 
of  "Brandywine,"  King  William  County,  as  to  his  origin.  One 
is  that  he  came  to  Virginia  with  two  brothers  from  near  the  border 
of  Wales  and  settled  in  King  William  county,  while  one  brother 
settled  on  the  Eastern  Shore  of  Virginia,  and  the  other  in  one  of 
the  Southside  counties.  The  other  tradition,  and  I  think  the  cor- 
rect one,  is  that  he  was  born  in  Virginia  and  sent  to  England  for 
his  educaion,  that  he  returned  to  Virginia  about  the  beginning  of 
the  Revolutionary  War,  in  which  he  served  with  distinction  as  an 
officer ;  his  sword  is  still  cherished  by  his  descendants.  He  set- 
tled in  King  William  "late  in  the  18th  century,"  and  named  his 
plantation  "Brandywine,"  which  doubtless  came  from  his  partici- 
pation in  the  battle  on  the  Brandywine  in  the  Revolution.  It  was 
rather  common  for  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution  to  name  his  home 
for  some  place  associated  with  his  war  experiences,  as  for  example 
Gen.  Daniel  Morgan  called  his  home  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley 
"Saratoga."  "Brandywine"  was  probably  a  Todd  plantation  and 
inherited  by  Capt.  John  Carter,  Sr.,  from  his  mother,  Margaret 
Todd. 

John  Carter  married,  when  about  twenty-five  or  six  years  old 
Mary  St.  John,  in  the  year  1776  or  '77.     They  had  issue: 

49.  Curtis  Carter,  born  Oct.  11,  1778,  died  Aug.  2,  1850. 

50.  Thomas  Carter,  no  data. 

51.  John  Carter,  no  data. 

52.  Chanie  Carter,  no  data. 

53.  William  Carter.    Had  son  Henry  Lockwood  Carter. 

An  account  of  the  descendants  of  Curtis  Carter  has  been  given 
me  by  Miss  Stella  Pickett  Hardy,  the  compiler  of  Colonial  Families 
of  the  Southern  States. 

49.  Curtis  Carter,  the  eldest  son,  inherited  the  plantation  at 
"Brandywine,"  where  he  died  in  1850.  In  the  war  of  1812  he 
served  as  a  private  in  Capt.  Wm.  Richardson's  company  of  Rifle- 
men from  Richmond,  Va.    He  was  married  four  times:  1st,  May 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  291 

26,  1801,  to  Lucy  Pointer,  who  died  in  1802;  2nd.,  Jan.  10,  1805, 
to  Elizabeth  Baker,  who  died  in  1814;  3rd.,  Oct.  11,  1815,  to 
Letitia  La  Tellier,  a  widow,  nee  Woodward,  who  died  in  1837 ; 
4th.,  March  21,  1848,  to  Fannie  Taliaferro.  Of  the  first  three 
marriages  there  was  issue  fifteen  children — one  by  the  first,  five 
by  the  second  and  nine  by  the  third,  as  follows : 

54.  Celisce  B.  Carter,  born  Aug.  1,  1802,  died  May  13,  1804. 

55.  Eliza  Anne  Carter,  born  Oct.  5,  1805,  died  Sept.  10,  1842. 

56.  Edwin  Harvey  Carter,  born  July  8,  1807. 

57.  Anne  Rebecca  Carter,  born  April  28,  1809. 

58.  William  Martin  Carter,  born  July  20,  181 1,  died  Jan  19, 
1849. 

59.  Susan  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  May  18,  1814. 

60.  Curtis  Carter,  Jr.,  born  Sept.  22,  1816. 

61.  Joseph  Carter,  born  Oct.  4,  1818. 

62.  Harriet  Woodward  Carter  (twin),  born  Nov.  5,  1820. 

63.  James  Milton  Carter  (twin),  born  Nov.  5,  1820. 

64.  Jesse  Woodward  Carter,  born  June  13,  1825. 

65.  John  Henry  Carter,  born  Dec.  25,  1827,  died  July  22,  1832. 

66.  Samuel  Parson  Carter,  born  July  4,  1830,  died  in  infancy. 

67.  John  Henry  Carter  (second  of  name)  born  May  10,  1833, 
died  July  10,  1833. 

68.  Virginia  Louise  Carter,  born  Feb.  24,  1836,  living  in  1910. 
Eliza  Anne  Carter  married  Thomas  J.  White ;  and  Virginia 

Louise  Carter  married  Joseph  J.  White,  of  Richmond,  Va.    Issue : 
Edgar,  Carter  Florence,  Harriet,  Stafford,  and  Wythe  White. 

58.  William  Martin  Carter,  second  son,  who  owned  a  great 
deal  of  property  in  Richmond  and  plantations  in  Henrico  County, 
where  he  died.  He  was  a  successful  planter  and  for  many  years 
was  an  elder  in  the  old  Sycamore  Church,  Henrico  County.  He 
was  married  Feb.  2,  1833,  to  Jane  Winn  Snead,  born  in  181 1,  died 
in  1859,  daughter  of  Robert  Snead  and  his  wife  Sophia  Harris. 
They  had  issue  nine  children : 

69.  Elizabeth  Winn  Carter,  born  Dec.  22,  1833,  living  at  Dover, 
Del.,  in  1910.  Married  James  Davis  Harwood,  a  merchant,  son 
of  Gassoway  Harwood,  of  Belleville,  West  Va.,  and  his  wife  Annie 
Braidon  Davis. 


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GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  "FAMILY 


70.  Alpheus  Barton  Carter,  born  Oct.  3,  1835,  died  in  infancy. 

71.  Robert  Curtis  Carter,  M.  D.,  born  Jan.  12,  1838,  died  July  5, 
1909,  at  Higginsville,  Mo.  During  the  war  he  was  a  member  of 
Shelby's  Brigade  of  the  Confederate  army,  and  after  the  war  a 
distinguished  and  much  beloved  physician  in  Missouri.  He  mar- 
ried Lenoir  Church  Campbell,  daughter  of  James  F.  and  Mary 
Fishback  Campbell. 

72.  Laurabelle  Carter,  born  Jan.  8,  1840,  died  in  infancy. 

73.  William  Henry  Carter,  born  Jan.  30,  1842,  died  Aug.  20, 

1895,  at  Lafayette,  Mo.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Missouri 
Legislature ;  later  while  living  in  Coldwater,  Kansas,  was  a  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  Congress.  He  married  Ada  Byron  Campbell, 
daughter  of  Robert  Cass  Campbell  and  his  wife  Catha  Cotton 
Vivian. 

74.  Sophia  Helen  Carter,  born  April  10,  1844,  died  in  Oct., 
1850. 

75.  Anne  Rebecca  Carter,  born  Jan.  27,  1846,  married  Aug.  27, 
1874,  Dr.  John  Wm.  Meng,  who  was  a  son  of  Dr.  Samuel  Thorn- 
ton Meng  and  his  wife  Elmira  Harrison.  Dr.  Meng,  Jr.,  served 
in  Shelby's  Brigade  in  the  Confederate  army.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Meng 
live  at  Lexington,  Mo.,  and  have  a  son,  Warren  Meng,  and  a 
daughter,  Jean  Campbell  Meng,  both  unmarried. 

76.  Edwin  Harvey  Carter,  born  Oct.  20,  1847,  died  in  infancy. 

77.  Edwin  Albert  Carter,  born  Nov.  17,  1848,  died  in  infancy. 

64.  Jesse  Woodward  Carter,  son  of  Curtis  Carter  of  "Brandy- 
wine,"  King  William  County,  and  his  third  wife,  Letitia  Le  Tel- 
lier,  born  June   13,  1825,  died  at  Waverly,  Missouri,   Sept.  20, 

1896,  where  he  was  superintendent  of  the  public  schools.  July  4, 
1850,  he  was  graduated  from  Bethany  College,  Virginia,  with  the 
degrees  of  A.  B.,  and  A.  M. ;  and  in  the  same  year  married  at 
Bethany,  Margaret  Campbell  (born  in  1823  at  Nenry,  County 
Down,  Ireland,  died  at  Sedalia,  Mo.,  Oct.  25,  1899),  daughter  of 
Archibald  Campbell,  a  Presbyterian  professor,  uncle  of  Alexander 
Campbell,  founder  of  the  church  of  Disciples  of  Christ.  After 
his  marriage,  Jesse  W.  Carter  settled  on  a  plantation  called 
"Ravenswood,"  he  owned  in  Henrico  County,  Va.,  until  1852, 
when  he  removed  to  Missouri.  They  had  issue  six  sons  and 
daughter,  as  follows : 


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293 


I.  Curtis  Carter,  died  infant. 

II.  Frank  Carter,  died  infant. 

III.  James  Carter,  died  infant. 

IV.  Jesse  Lee  Carter,  born  185 1  in  Virginia,  died  Nov.  19,  i< 
Waverly,  Mo.,  married  Jennie  Harwood  in  1882  and  had  issue: 
Jesse  Lee,  Jr.,  of  Oklahoma  City,  who  was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Missouri  with  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1910,  and  A.  M.  in 
1912;  and  Lenoir  Carter,  born  1887. 

V.  Marian  Dixon  Carter,  born  1853,  Dover,  Mo.,  married  in 
1875  N.  H.  Gentry,  Esq.,  of  Wooddale  Place,  Sedalia,  Mo.,  and 
has  issue:  Jael  Gentry,  born  1878,  married  Wra.  Fulton,  M.  D., 
of  Chicago;  Ella  Gentry,  born  1879;  Nannie  Gentry,  born  1880, 
married  Major  Kidd,  of  Sedalia;  Lucy  Gentry,  born  1881 ;  Joel, 
died  infant ;  Lee  Morrison,  A.  B.  '05  L^niversity  Missourn.,  mar- 
ried 1910  Christian  Spencer. 

VI.  William  Martin  Carter,  D.  D.  S.,  born  1857,  lives  at  Se- 
dalia, Mo.,  married  in  1880  Mary  L.  Fletcher  and  has  issue : 
Fletcher  Woodward,  born  1883,  D.  D.  S.,  graduate  of  Washington 
University,  Missouri;  Marguerite,  born  1887;  Frances,  born  1890. 

VII.  Joseph  Woodward  Carter,  D.  D.  S.,  born  June  29,  1863, 
graduate  University  of  Maryland,  1885,  lives  at  Marshall,  Mo. 
Married  in  1888  Katharine  McKeever,  and  has  issue:  Woodward 
Lee  Carter,  born  in  1889,  A.  B.  '10  L'niversity  of  Missouri,  now  a 
student  at  Northwestern  University,  Chicago ;  and  Katharine  St. 
John  Carter,  born  in  1903. 

Carter  Family — Stevens,  Sutton  and  Taliaferro  Branches. 

29.  Mary  Beverley  Carter,  eldest  daughter  of  Capt.  John 
Carter,  Sr.,  and  his  second  wife  Hannah  Chew,  married  Capt. 
Richard  Stevens,  of  Caroline  or  Spotsylvania  County,  and  had 
issue :  Lucy,  Lewis,  Robert,  Hiram.  Horace,  Polly  and  Judith. 
The  daughters  and  sons  Lewis  and  Robert  all  married,  but  have 
no  data  of  them. 

31.  Judith  Carter,  3rd.  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Hannah 
Chew  Carter,  born  in  1773,  died  in  1827.  She  married  Joseph 
Sutton,  a  Caroline  county  planter,  and  had  issue : 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


78.  Maria  Chew  Carter,  married  her  first  cousin,  John  Carter 
Sutton,  of  "Pine  Forest,"  on  the  Mattaponi,  and  died  in  181 3, 
leaving  one  son,  John  Oliver  Sutton. 

79.  Stephen  Sutton,  M.  D.,  married  Eliza  Oliver  and  had  issue: 
Armistead  O.  Sutton  married  his  cousin,  Sarah  Lewis,  David 
married  a  Miss  Noland,  Pulaski,  d.  s.  p.,  Elvira,  Stephen,  d.  s.  p., 
and  Mary  Eliza  Sutton. 

80.  Robert  Carter  Sutton  married  Catharine  Washington,  of  the 
Caroline  County  Washington  family,  and  had  issue:  John  Ors- 
ville  Sutton  married  Martha  Chapman  and  had  Charles,  Logan, 
James,  Maria  Chew,  and  Judith ;  Susan  Sutton,  Maria  Sutton, 
Judith  Ann  Sutton  married  a  Mr.  Shepperd,  Robert  Sutton,  Oscar 
Sutton,  and  Edward  Sutton. 

32.  Lucy  Carter,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  and  Hannah  Chew 
Carter,  born  in  1775,  died  in  183 1  "of  a  fit."  She  was  the  second 
wife  of  Burton  Taliaferro,  brother  of  her  sister  Margaret  Chew 
Carter's  husband.  They  had  no  issue.  After  the  death  of  her 
husband  she  rented  the  old  Carter  home  from  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Zachariah  Taliaferro,  of  South  Carolina,  and  lived  there  until  she 
died.  The  old  mansion  house  was  burned  in  1825,  and  among 
other  things  it  is  thought  she  lost  two  or  three  Carter  portraits. 
After  the  home  was  burned  she  lived  in  the  overseer's  house  until 
it  was  burned  in  1827;  she  then  built  a  chimney  to  the  carriage 
house  and  lived  there  "in  a  very  uncomfortable  manner."  There 
are  several  Carter  portraits  owned  by  the  descendants  of  Margaret 
Chew  Carter  Taliaferro  in  South  Carolina,  but  are  scattered  in 
plantation  homes  and  not  easily  accessible  to  a  photographer. 

The  Taliaferros  of  South  Carolina. 

30.  Margaret  Chew  Carter,  the  2nd.  daughter  of  Capt.  John 
Carter  by  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Chew,  born  Jan.  14,  1771,  in 
Virginia,  died  May  19,  1822,  at  her  home,  "Mt.  Jolly,"  near  Pen- 
dleton, S.  C.  July  31,1802,  she  was  married  at  her  father's  home 
in  Virginia  to  Zachariah  Taliaferro,  an  old  bachelor  lawyer  of 
South  Carolina.  He  was  born  in  Caroline  County,  Va.,  April  28, 
1759,  and  died  in  South  Carolina  April  14,  1831.     He  was  a  son 


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of  Zachariah  Taliaferro,  Sr.,  and  his  wife  Mary  Boutwell.  Zach- 
ariah  Taliaferro,  Sr.,  owned  large  tracts  of  land  in  Amherst 
county,  to  which  he  removed  about  1770,  and  in  i775-'76  was  a 
member  of  the  Amherst  County  Committee  of  Safety. 

Zachariah  Taliaferro,  Jr.,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and 
after  the  war  studied  law  and  settled  in  South  Carolina,  near  Pen- 
dleton, where  he  was  a  prominent  lawyer  and  planter  for  about 
forty-five  years.  He  has  been  described  as  "A  man  six  feet  tall, 
weighing  over  two  hundred  pounds,  blue  eyes,  black  hair,  and 
clean  shaven  face.  He  was  a  man  of  good  understanding,  equable 
temper,  liberal  to  the  poor,  and  a  most  humane  master."  One 
summer  when  about  the  age  of  forty  years  he  was  visiting  his 
relatives  and  friends  in  Virginia.  On  the  eve  of  his  return  to 
South  Carolina  he  was  persuaded  to  remain  a  day  longer  and 
attend  a  grand  ball  at  Fredericksburg  the  next  night.  The  night 
before  the  ball  he  dreamed  that  he  attended  the  dance  and  on 
entering  the  room  saw  a  beautiful  young  lady  at  the  other  end  of 
the  room  tying  her  slipper.  The  night  of  the  ball,  as  he  entered 
the  room  his  dream  was  singularly  verified.  He  sought  an  intro- 
duction and  later  the  young  lady — Margaret  Chew  Carter — be- 
came his  bride.  The  Taliaferro  arms  as  used  by  this  gentleman 
are  described  as :  "A  hand  and  arm  holding  a  dagger  cutting  a 
bar  of  iron.     The  motto,  Fortis  et  firmis." 

Zachariah  and  Margaret  Chew  Carter  Taliaferro  had  issue : 

81.  Sarah  Anne,  born  June  2,  1803,  died  Aug.  12,  1888. 

82.  Lucy  Hannah,  born  May  5,  1806,  died  Aug.  17,  1875. 

83.  Mary  Margaret,  born  May  5,  1808,  died  June  4,  1896. 

84.  John  Zachariah,  born  Nov.  22,  1810,  died  in  infancy. 

85.  Caroline  Virginia,  born  Nov.  5,  181 1,  died  May  14,  1877. 

86.  Zachariah,  born  Nov.  5,  1813,  died  in  infancy. 

81.  Sarah  Anne  Taliaferro  married  on  March  20,  1823,  Dr. 

0.  R.  Broyles,  of  "Ashtabula,"  Pendleton,  S.  C,  and  had  issue: 

1.  Augustus  Taliaferro,  born  1824,  died  1904.  He  was  a  grad- 
uate of  the  South  Carolina  College,  a  lawyer,  and  captain  in  the 
Confederate  army.  Unmarried.  II.  Charles  Edward,  also  a  law- 
yer, a  colonel  of  a  Georgia  regiment  in  the  Confederate  army,  and 
after  the  war  a  member  or  the  Georgia  Legislature.     He  married 


296  GENEALOGY  O'F  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Lucy  Johnson,  and  had  issue :  Laura,  married  Mr.  Malange  Boyd ; 
Sarah  married  Dr.  Arthur  Boyd;  Charles,  Frank,  Robert,  and 
Price.  III.  Wm.  Henry,  a  private  in  the  Confederate  army,  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Taliaferro  and  settled  in  Alabama.  IV.  Margaret, 
married  Dr.  Sam  Van  Wyeth,  of  New  York  city,  and  had  issue : 
Williams,  d.  s.  p. ;  Samuel  M.,  married  Pierce  Harrison  and  had 
Mariach,  Margaret  May,  Dolly,  and  Sally  Anne;  Oze  Broyles 
married  Elizabeth  Keith  and  had  Lydia,  married  John  Shuford, 
Overman  removed  to  Texas,  O.  B.,  Jr.,  and  Elizabeth.  V.  Robert, 
private  C.  S.  A.,  married  Ella  Keith,  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  had 
issue :  Roberta,  Avena,  Sarah,  Ferro  and  Robert,  none  of  whom 
married.  VI.  Sarah  married  Wm.  D.  Williams,  a  wealthy  Ten- 
nesseean  and  had  issue:  Alexander,  Wm.  D.,  Jr.,  Lucien,  John, 
Margaret,  and  Mary,  none  of  whom  married.  VII.  Thomas,  pri- 
vate C.  S.  A.,  married  ( i )  Mary  Raeney  and  settled  in  Tennessee. 
Mar.  (2)  Bettie  Harrison,  of  S.  C.  VIII.  John  Pendleton,  C.  S. 
A.,  married  Bettie  Hubbard. 

82.  Lucy  Hannah  Taliaferro  married  in  Sept.,  1826,  Col. 
David  Sloan  Taylor,  a  wealthy  planter  of  Anderson  County,  S.  C. 
He  was  born  in  1808  and  died  in  1867.  They  had  issue:  I.  Zach- 
ariah,  served  in  Confederate  army,  married  Mary  Meriwether  and 
had  issue :  Mary  Rosa  married  Dr.  Ampert ;  Zachariah,  Jr. ;  Davis  ; 
William ;  James ;  and  Gertrude  married  Price  M.  Benson.  II. 
Rosa  married  Dr.  D.  D.  Bacot,  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  prominent  French  families  of  South  Carolina,  which  traces 
back  to  Pierre  Bacot,  born  in  Tours,  France,  about  1670,  married 
Jacquine  Mercier  in  1690  and  fled  to  South  Carolina  in  1694,  where 
he  purchased  a  large  plantation  on  Goose  Creek,  19  miles  from 
Charleston,  and  died  there  in  1725.  Dr.  Bacot  was  a  graduate  of 
the  Charleston  Medical  College  in  1848  and  practiced  at  Orange- 
burg and  Piedmont,  S.  C.  Died  at  Pendleton  in  1862.  They  had 
issue :  David  Taylor,  married  Florence  Norton  and  had  Norborne ; 
Florence  married  a  Mr.  Reed,  of  Virginia ;  George ;  and  Rachel, 
who  married  Campbell  Simons,  member  of  another  of  South  Car- 
olina's most  prominent  families ;  Laura  married  Paul  Jenkins  and 
had  Ada,  married  John  Simons  (brother  of  Campbell),  Paul, 
Daniel,  and  Rosamond ;  Zachariah,  d.  s.  p. ;  and  Taliaferro,  d.  s.  p. 


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III.  Joseph  Taylor,  C.  S.  A.,  married  Ellen  King,  of  Charleston, 
and  had  issue:  Eleneta,  married  Wm.  H.  Heyward ;  Lucia  mar- 
ried Moultrie  Clement,  Pauline,  Taliaferro  and  Hugh — all  of 
Charleston.  IV.  Lucy  married  Edward  R.  Belcher  and  had 
Robert,  who  married  a  Miss  Ligon.  V.  Susan  married  Edward 
L.  Parker,  of  Charleston,  and  had  Sue,  who  married  Cuthbert 
Fripps  and  had  Edw.  Parker  and  Marion.  VI.  Samuel,  died  in 
the  Confederate  army  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  VII.  Davis,  C.  S. 
A.,  married  Bessie  Rucker  and  had  issue :  John  Ligon,  Lucia  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Hudgins,  Eubank,  Rucker  and  Frank.  VIII.  William, 
d.  s.  p.  IX.  Meriwether  married  Mary  DeSaussure  Bacot,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Hutson  Bacot  and  his  wife  Mary  Louise  Cuthbert. 
Her  father  was  a  graduate  of  West  Point,  and  after  several  years 
in  the  army,  resigned  and  retired  to  a  large  plantation  near  Beau- 
fort, S.  C.  They  had  issue :  Ernest,  DeSaussure  and  Louise.  X. 
Carter,  d.  3.  p.  XI.  Edward  W.  married  Anne  Cuthbert  Bacot, 
born  in  1858,  a  sister  of  Meriwether  Taylor's  wife.  They  had 
issue :  a  son,  David,  who  married  Pauline  Newell,  of  Georgia. 

83.  Mary  Margaret  Taliaferro  married  Dec.  27,  1836,  Maj. 
R.  F.  Simpson,  of  Laurens  Co.,  S.  C.  He  was  born  in  1798  and 
died  at  "Mt.  Jolly,"  the  old  Taliaferro  home  near  Pendelton  Oct. 
29,  1882.  He  was  a  major  in  the  Seminole  War,  i835-'42,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  South  Carolina  Legislature  several  times,  a  member  of 
Congress  in  1845  ar|d  later,  a  member  of  the  South  Carolina  Sen- 
ate, a  member  of  the  South  Carolina  Secession  Convention,  and 
after  the  war  was  a  candidate  for  Governor  (when  the  South 
Carolina  Governors  were  elected  by  the  Legislature)  and  lost  it 
by  but  one  vote.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  South  Carolina  Col- 
lege, and  a  planter.  They  had  issue :  I.  Taliaferro,  killed  in 
the  Confederate  army  at  Chickamauga.  II.  Richard  W.,  a  pri- 
vate in  the  Confederate  army,  a  lawyer,  and  a  member  of  the 
famous  "Wallace  House"  that  redeemed  South  Carolina  from 
negro  rule  in  1876.  For  many  years  "Col."  Simpson  was  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Clemson  College,  S.  C.  He  mar- 
ried Maria  Garlington  and  had  issue:  1.  Margaret  married  Dr.  W. 
W.  Watkins ;  Susan  married  P.  H.  E.  Sloan  and  had  Paul,  Louise, 
Ella,  Jean,  Lela,  Margaret,  Mary  R.,  and  Susan ;  2.     Louis ;  3. 


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Anne  married  Prof.  S.  M.  Martin  and  had  Mauer,  Richard  and 
Ben ;  4.  Jennie  married  A.  W.  Klugh  and  had  Williston  and 
Louise;  5.  Richard;  6.  John  married  Lucy  Jones  and  had  John 
Garlington ;  7.  Taliaferro,  married  C.  Bradfield  and  had  Talia- 
ferro, Jr.  III.  Mary  married  Thos.  J.  Williams,  of  Tennessee. 
IV.  Anne  T.,  died  infant.     V.  John  G.,  died  infant. 

32.  Caroline  Virginia  Taliaferro  married  May  1,  1844,  Dr.  H.  G. 
Miller,  of  Abbeville,  S.  C.  He  was  born  in  1820  and  died  March 
21,  1899,  at  his  home  "Vallambrosia,"  near  Pendleton,  S.  C.  They 
had  issue:  I.  Harry  C.,  killed  in  battle  near  Strasburg,  in  the 
Confederate  army,  on  the  2nd.  Aug.,  1863,  aged  twenty-four  years. 
II.  Resica  Elizabeth,  married  John  N.  Hook,  of  Clemson  College, 
S.  C.  No  issue.  III.  Caroline,  married  Wm.  W.  Simons,  of  S. 
C.  No  issue.  IV.  Wm.  George,  married  Edith  E.  Walker  and 
has  issue:  1.  Harry  married  Lillian  Smallwood  and  had  Dorothea, 
Harry  and  Ben ;  2.  Percy  married  Marian  Marston  and  had  son 
Marston ;  3.  Maud;  4.  Mattie  married  Harry  Scharfe  and  has 
Harry  and  Martha;  5.  Edith;  6.  Beatrice;  7.  Campbell;  8.  Sue 
Pickens ;  9.  Caroline  married  E.  H.  Morton  and  has  Harry  and 
Ben.     V.  Taliaferro  Miller.     No  issue. 

Mrs.  Hook  has  the  following  gossipy  letters  written  to  her 
grandmother  and  grandfather  Taliaferro : 

Neulich  August  2d  1801 
With  inexpressible  Satisfactory  I  received  My  Dear  Cousin's  much 
esteemed  favor,  dated  July  7th.  Was  sorry  to  hear  aunt  Carter  had  had 
another  attack  of  the  cholic ;  and  hope  she  is  now  well  enough  to  visit 
us  as  she  promised  when  I  was  in  Caroline  that  she  would  be  up  this 
month,  and  that  she  would  come  first  to  Neulich ;  we  have  been  looking 
for  you  and  counsin  Lucy  ever  since  we  came  from  Caroline. 

Mama's  quilt  is  not  put  in  the  frame  yet.  She  has  been  waiting  for 
you ;  it  has  been  ready  ever  since  I  wrote  you  last.  I  wish  you  woiuld 
come.  I  want  to  see  you  all  very  much.  You  complained  of  not  having 
any  way — that  is  a  trifling  excuse  Cousin;  for  I  am  certain  Kindness  can 
bring  you  as  far  as  this.  I  would  not  be  ceremonious.  I  would  come 
down  but  am  very  busy  making  wax  work ;  and  hope  in  the  course  of  a 
few  weeks  to  have  two  boxes  compleated.  One  3  and  the  other  4  pains  of 
glass.  I  wish  you  were  here  to  assist  me,  I  expect  you  are  quite  a  hand. 
Mrs.  Marye  has  promised  to  learn  me  to  paint  as  soon  as  I  finish  my  wax 
work.     Mrs.  Marye  and  Mrs.   Stevenson  were  here  last   week  and  some 


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very  agreeable  young  ladies  &  I  wish  you  could  have  been  with  us. 
Cousin  Mary  P.  Stanard  left  us  last  Friday;  we  were  very  sorry  to  part 
after  living  with  her  ten  weeks.  Caroline  cries  at  hearing  her  name  men- 
tioned. I  was  sorry  to  hear  that  cousin  Sutton  was  so  much  disappointed 
in  our  not  going  to  see  her.  I  hope  the  next  time  I  come  to  Caroline  we 
shall  certainly  go  as  I  never  wanted  to  go  enywhe.re  moife  in  my  life. 
Give  my  best  love  to  Cousin  Stevens  and  her  family;  and  tell  cousin  Lucy 
Stevens  I  shall  expect  her  up  with  you ;  she  must  certainly  come.  Cousin 
L.  C.  (Larkin  Chew  ?)  promised  to  bring  her.  Mama  desires  to  be  re- 
membered to  Aunt  Carter  in  the  most  affectionate  manner  and  says  it  has 
never  been  in  her  power  to  visit  her  this  summer  as  she  intended,  but 
shall  be  happy  to  see  her  up  this  month.  You  say  that  you  have  never 
had  any  opportunity  of  writing  to  me;  Cousin  L.  Stanard's  James  comes 
here  every  Sunday  almost ;  if  you  will  send  your  letters  there  he  can  bring 
them.  I  now  write  by  him.  Mrs.  Scott  and  E.  W.  have  gone  to  New 
York.  Nellie  came  to  take  leave  of  us-  She  cry'd  very  much,  she  de- 
sired to  be  particularly  remembered  to  you.  You  write  me  cousin  that 
the  young,  the  gay,  the  Spritely  was  paying  his  vows  there.  I  can  guess 
the  name  begins  with  T.  I  heard  you  were  to  be  married  very  soon.  I 
want  to  see  you  very  much,  cousin  N.  Chew  is  now  at  cousin  L.  Stan- 
ard's. I  expect  he  will  visit  you  before  he  returns.  I  shall  flatter  my- 
self with  the  hope  of  receiving  a  letter  from  you  by  him-  Excuse  bad 
writing  James  hurries  me,  mama  and  sisters  unite  their  love  with  your 
affectionate  cousin, 

Mary  Chew. 

Do  write  me.     I  shall  expect  some  of  them  handsome  beaux  up  with 
you.     We  have  had   several  letters   from   Brother   C.   lately,  and  2   from 
Brother  B.  they  desired  to  be  remembered  to  you  all.     Brother  John  came 
up  last  week  in  a  very  low  state  of  health  &  is  gone  to  the  springs. 
Miss  Margaret  Chew  Carter 
Caroline. 

Care  of  Miss  M.  P.  Stanard. 

Spotsylvania   Standfield 

4th  October  1805 
How  pleasing  the  reflection  my  beloved  cousin  .  .  .  (large  piece 
missing).  Accept  my  best  wishes  to  entertain  you  in  whatever  way  they 
are  concerned.  I  have  just  returned  this  morning  from  Caroline,  and 
have  thepleasure  to  inform  you  that  I  left  your  amiable  parent  and  sister 
Lucy  well.  I  had  the  satisfaction  of  perusing  your  last  letter,  and  assure 
you  my  beloved  cousin  it  was  my  pleasure  to  observe  I  was  not  forgotten, 


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though  you  have  neglected  me  in  not  writing  (another  missing  part), 
your  fond  mother  and  sisters  perfectly  happy,  and  add  much  to  the  felicity 
of  all  your  friends  and  relatives.  I  left  home  a  few  days  ago,  and  with 
infiinite  pleasure  enform  you  my  beloved  and  Honored  parent  and  amiable 
sisters  were  well.  We  have  letters  from  all  our  beloved  brothers  of  very 
recent  date  they  were  all  enjoying  perfect  health  that  finest  of  all  bless- 
ings. Brother  B.  was  in  London  when  he  wrote  last  and  it  is  with  the 
greatest  regret  I  tell  you  his  return  to  America  is  uncertain,  he  has  for- 
warded us  a  bale  of  handsome  goods  and  intends  to  send  each  of  his 
sisters  his  minature  elegantly  set.  We  are  flattered  with  hopes  of  a  visit 
from  brother  Thomas  in  december.  I  note  what  you  say  respecting  a 
certain  gentleman  to  cousin  Lucy.  I  think  he  is  rather  uncivil  in  his  re- 
quest. You  must  tell  him  the  sight  of  the  Virginia  girls  would  be  suf- 
ficient compensation  for  the  expenses  of  his  journey  even  if  he  could  not 
prevail  on  cousin  L.  to  accompany  him  back.  My  sisters  Lucy,  Caroline 
and  my  self  are  preparing  ourselves  for  the  races,  which  will  commence 
on  the  20th  inst.  We  promise  ourselves  great  pleasure  as  the  players  are 
to  be  in  Town  and  we  have  many  particular  friends  and  acquaintances  in 
Fredericksburg.  We  spent  the  most  of  last  winter  there,  the  assembly 
balls  were  unusually  pleasant.  I  have  made  you  two  models  of  caps  which 
were  the  newest  fashion  when  I  left  home.  I  intend  to  send  you  some 
pieces  of  my  drawing  and  painting,  if  I  have  an  opportunity  from  N.  Lich 
to  Caroline  before  Mr.  Boothe  sets  out,  if  I  do  not  will  send  them  by 
the  first  safe  opportunity  and  all  tho'  they  are  not  elegantly  executed,  I 
must  request  you  will  accept  them  as  a  small  mark  of  my  affectionate 
remembrance,  and  have  them  framed  as  they  will  serve  to  remind  you  of 
your  fond  Mary.  It  is  with  the  greatest  regret  I  tell  you  that  the  family 
here  is  much  indisposed  with  ague  and  fever.  My  esteemed  Cousin  Stan- 
ard  and  sweet  little  Caroline  both  had  an  attack  yesterday  and  five  of 
the  servants-  Cousin  M.  P.  S.  is  now  on  James  River  on  a  visit  to  her 
brother  and  sister.  I  shall  make  no  apology  to  you  for  my  stile  or  in- 
accuracies. I  write  with  out  the  least  study,  never  aim  at  anything  more 
than  the  effusions  of  a  heart  tenderly  attached  to  you,  and  which  feels 
deeply  interested  in  your  happiness.  Cousin  S.  is  now  very  sick,  which 
obliges  me  to  be  more  brief  than  I  intended.  I  have  a  particular  request 
to  make  of  you,  which  is  to  send  me  some  of  your  hair  when  you  write 
me  as  I  wish  to  have  a  ring  made  to  put  it  in.  Cousin  Stanard,  Hugh, 
Tom,  and  Betsy  all  unite  with  me  in  love  to  your  good  companion  and 
yourself.  Kiss  Sarah  Ann  for  me  and  teach  her  to  call  my  name.  I  have 
nearly  finished  my  paper,  and  must  bring  my  ill  composed  narrative  to  a 
close.  By  assuring  you  my  ever  dear  friend  that  you  both  have  my  sincere 
wishes  for  your  mutual  happiness,  and  believe  me  I  am  never  more  at  a 


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loss  for  words  than  when  I  attempt  to  express  with  what  sincerity  and 
affection  I  remain, 

Your  unchangeable  friend, 

Mary  Chew. 
Mrs-  Margaret  C.  Taliaferro,  Pendleton,  S.  C. 

May  24,   1813. 
My  Dear  Child 

You  can't  imagine  the  pleasure  it  gave  me  to  hear  from  you,  tho'  am' 
sorry  to  hear  of  the  loss  of  your  dear  sons.  I  hope  that  you  will  con- 
sider that  they  are  happy.  You  say  that  you  cannot  account  for  my  long 
silence;  it  is  not  for  want  of  respect,  or  of  a  parent's  true  affection; 
tho'  must  acknowledge  that  you  have  a  right  to  complain.  Don't  let  that 
hender  you  from  coming  to  see  me,  if  you  do  not  come  this  summer,  and 
the  dear  children,  I  do  not  ever  expect  to  have  the  pleasure  of  seeing 
them.  Your  sister  Sutton  has  had  a  very  sick  family;  poor  dear  Maria 
is  dead.  She  married  Sally  Sutton's  son  John.  She  had  three  children, 
but  one  living  which  is  a  son.  They  are  all  well  at  present.  Mr.  T.  and 
Lucy  is  well  and  as  fat  as  they  can  be.  Polly  intends  to  write;  so  expect 
she  will  inform  you.  Tell  my  dear  Sarah  Ann  I  shall  show  her  letter 
to  her  cousin  John  O.  Sutton  and  ask  him  if  you  do  not  outlearn  him. 
My  eyes  and  fingers  give  out,  I  can  scarce  hold  the  pen.  If  any  thing 
will  keep  me  alive  it  is  the  thought  of  seeing  you  all. 

Hannah  Carter. 

Her  daughter,  Mrs.  Burton  Taliaferro,  adds  a  postscript  saying: 
"My  dear  old  mother  has  solicited  me  to  write  for  her,  as  her  trem- 
bling hands  are  incapable.    Do  my  Peggy,  do  not  fail  you  and  Mr.  Talia- 
ferro, together  with  all  your  children  to  visit  us  this  summer." 

In  November  1829,  Maj.  Alsop  wrote  Mr.  Taliaferro  the  following 
about  the  connection  and  friends  in  Virginia : 

"Horace  Marshall  is  broke  and  sold  out.  Was  in  Philadelphia  the  last 
I  heard  of  him.  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Stevens  has  become  very  poore.  She  is 
living  with  her  son  Lewis  at  present.  Lucy  Stevens  is  with  Mrs.  L.  Tal- 
iaferro.    Capt.  Stanard  is  still  here,  but  in  bad  health." 

In  January,  1830,  he  wrote : 

"With  respect  to  your  Old  Acquaintances  I  will  endeavor  to  give  you 
some  Account.  Larkin  Stanard  is  still  living — he  has  a  sore  leg  which 
keeps  him  Confind.    Henry  C.  Coleman  is  living  in  Caroline,  Wm.  &  Zach. 


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T.  Wilson  has  been  dead  for  several  years,  the  children  of  Wm.  Taliaferro 
are  all  living  but  the  oldest  son  Walker  he  has  been  dead  some  time ;  the 
daughtrs  all  Married.  Some  doing  pretty  well  &  some  badly.  One  of  the 
daughters  is  dead  and  left  2  or  3  children.  Your  old  friend  James  Carter 
is  still  living  and  well  the  last  I  heard  of  him.  Capt.  Jones  and  his 
wife  are  dead  &  the  land  sold  and  the  children  Squandered  off.  Col0. 
Coleman's  widow  &  her  Children  has  moved  to  Kentucky,  we  have  lately 
heard  her  oldest  Son  is  dead.  So  goes  the  World  some  Coming  in  Others 
Going  Out." 

Another  letter  of  his  shows  that  Mrs.  Hannah  Carter  died  in   1821, 
leaving  a  personal  estate  of  about  seven  thousand  dollars. 


Descendants  of  Henry  Skipwith  Carter  of 
Lancaster  County 

"Henry  Skipwith,  4th  son  Tho:  &  Kath:  Carter,  bornd  of  a 
Wednesy  the  7h  June,  1676,  &  baptzd  att  Home  by  Rev  Mr  Doggette 
on  Sunday  aftr  Service  ye  i8h.  Cap.n  Wm  Ball,  Cap."  David  Fox  and 
Mrs  Srah  Fleete  standing." — Old  Carter  Prayer  Book.  He  died 
in  Lancaster  in  1743. 

At  the  time  of  his  father's  death  in  1700  Henry  Carter  was  in 
England,  either  on  business  or  a  visit  to  his  relatives.  He  re- 
turned, however,  to  Virginia,  where  he  was  married  on  May  6, 
1704,  to  Anne  Harris — old  Prayer  Book.  Her  parentage  is  shown 
by  a  lease  for  200  acres  of  land  on  Nov.  9,  1704,  from  Henry 
Carter  and  wife  Anne,  "who  was  daughter  of  Gainey  Harris,  late 
of  this  county,  Gent,  who  by  his  will  dated  14th  April,  1693,  left 
the  above  mentioned  premises  to  his  daughter  Ann." 

June  24,  1703,  Thomas,  Henry  and  John  Carter,  "gentlemen," 
gave  a  bond  to  their  brother  Edward  Carter  guaranteeing  his  pos- 
session of  a  negro  man,  Robin,  left  to  him  by  their  grandfather, 
Edward  Dale. 

From  1728  until  1740  "Mr.  Henry  Carter"  was  continuously  a 
member  of  the  county  court.  He  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ 
Church,  probably  for  several  years,  as  shown  by  the  fragment  of 
the  old  Vestry  Book  of  St.  Mary's  White  Chapel,  which  gives  his 
name  in  a  list  of  the  vestry  of  the  two  parishes  in  a  general  meet- 
ing in  1743.  April  5,  1737,  he  was  one  of  eleven  signers  to  a 
memorial  to  the  governor  complaining  that  Wm.  Ball,  Jr.,  Gent., 
who  had  been  a  justice  of  Lancaster  for  nine  years,  had  been 
omitted  from  the  Commission  because  of  misrepresentation. 

In  a  deposition  made  April  8,  1743,  Henry  Carter  stated  that  he 
was  about  sixty-seven  years  of  age. 

March  21,  1732,  "Henry  Carter,  of  the  County  of  Lancaster, 
Gent.,"  made  his  will,  which  was  probated  Oct.  10,  1743.  He  left 
home  plantation  and  negro  man,  Courtney,  to  son,  Gainey  Carter. 


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Negroes  Tom  and  Jack  to  his  three  daughters  and  son  Robert,  all 
of  whom  were  to  have  the  right  to  remain  at  home  until  the 
daughters  married  and  Robert  arrived  at  the  age  of  16  years. 
Daughters  to  have  two  beds  and  furniture  and  their  mother's 
jewelry — Catharine  to  have  the  biggest  gold  ring,  and  Anne  the 
lesser  one,  and  Elizabeth  the  gold  bobbs.  Son  John  to  have  a 
chest  in  the  "outward  room,"  a  new  hat,  "my  silver  cup,  my  ten 
shilling  piece  of  gold  my  mother  (Katharine  Dale  Carter)  gave 
me,  to  make  him  a  mourning  ring ;  and  one-eight  part  of  my  cattle 
after  miring  time  is  over."  Son  Harry  a  little  trunk,  a  new  drug- 
get coat  and  breeches  and  dimity  linen  clothes.  Son  Josiah  a 
horse  named  Jack,  new  saddle  and  bridle  and  one  steer.  Son 
Robert  the  smallest  bed  and  furniture  upstairs.  All  children  to 
share  equally  in  the  rest  of  personal  and  real  estate.  Brother 
Thomas  to  have  "my  silver  seal."  "It  is  my  desire  that  my 
cousin  Thomas  Carter  be  assisting  to  my  son  Gainey  in  managing 
the  negroes."  Sons  John,  Harry  and  Gainey  Executors.  This 
mention  of  his  "cousin  Thomas  Carter"  would  seem  to  indicate 
that  Capt.  Thomas  Carter  had  had  a  brother  who  had  settled  in 
that  part  of  Virginia.  The  account  of  the  family  writen  in  1858 
says  that  he  had  a  brother  John  Carter  in  Essex.  There  was  also 
a  family  of  Carter  in  Middlesex  contemporaneous  with  those  of 
Lancaster,  who  had  similar  given  names.  On  the  other  hand, 
Henry  Carter  may  have  meant  his  nephew  Thomas  Carter,  son 
of  Edward,  as  in  that  day  the  term  "cousin"  was  used  to  cover  al- 
most any  degree  of  relationship.  Henry  Carter's  personal  estate 
was  inventoried  but  not  appraised.  It  included  a  large  amount  of 
house  furnishings,  a  bass  viol,  15  books,  silver  cup,  silver  shoe 
buckles,  two  gold  rings  and  gold  "bobb,"  five  suits  of  clothes,  an 
overcoat,  and  numerous  other  articles  of  his  wearing  apparel,  a 
great  deal  of  earthen  and  pewter  ware,  including  the  unusual  item 
of  2  pewter  flower  pots,  four  negroes,  etc. 

Henry  and  Anne  Carter  had  issue : 

1.  Gainey  Carter,  eldest  son,  died  prior  to  May  12,  1749,  un- 
married. 

2.  Catharine  Carter,  died  unmarried  in  1749. 

3.  Anne  Carter,  unmarried  in  1749. 


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4.  Elizabeth  Carter.     No  data. 

5.  John  Carter,  died  in  Stafford  prior  to  1785. 

6.  Josiah  Carter,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1763. 

7.  Harry  Carter,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1784. 

8.  Robert  Carter,  died  after  1767  in  Culpeper. 

2.  Catharine  Carter,  died  unmarried,  in  Lancaster.  Her 
will,  prob.  July  14,  1749,  disposed  of  her  estate  as  follows :  To 
loving  brother  Harry  Carter  her  silver  studs  and  one  pistole ;  to 
brother  Josiah  Carter  her  plain  gold  ring ;  to  sister  Ann  Carter  her 
mourning  ring;  to  brother  Harry's  wife  her  best  suit  of  clothes 
and  cloak ;  to  brother  Robert  Carter  one-third  of  her  estate,  and 
the  remainder  to  sister  Ann  Carter.  The  inventory  mentions  the 
following  books :  one  large  Bible,  Speed's  Chronicles,  Byfield's 
Sermons,  and  a  Common  Prayer  Book. 

5.  Johx  Carter,  second  son,  died  in  Stafford  prior  to  1785. 
The  Carter  MSS.  says  of  him:  ''John  married  first  a  Miss  Payne 
and  had  sons  Richard,  Merriman  and  Josiah,  and  a  daughter  Ann. 
He  then  married  a  Miss  Butler  and  settled  in  Stafford.  They 
had  sons  Harris,  John  and  Robert,  and  daughters  Molly,  Fanny, 
Kitty  and  Betty.  John  was  born  at  my  grandpa  Smith's  when 
his  parents  were  returning  to  Stafford  from  a  visit  in  Lancaster. 
The  date  is  in  grandpa's  old  Bible  first  day  of  May,  1752.  Aunt 
Fanny  was  very  fond  of  the  last  Mrs.  Carter  and  her  daughters, 
and  for  many  years  made  them  a  yearly  visit  in  Stafford.  After 
the  death  of  the  old  folks  Harris  lived  at  the  home  place.  The 
other  sons  all  moved  to  the  southern  counties." 

We  have  no  other  data  of  the  first  wife  of  John  Carter,  but 
the  names  of  her  sons,  Richard  and  Merriman,  suggests  that  she 
may  have  been  a  daughter  of  either  Richard,  William,  John,  or 
George  Payne,  who  were  the  sons  of  William  Payne,  Sr.,  and  his 
wife  Susannah  Merriman,  only  daughter  of  Richard  Merriman, 
Gent.,  and  his  wife  Susannah.  Rich'd  Merriman's  will  was  proved 
in  Lancaster  June  10,  1696. 

John  Carter  married  (2)  Mary  Butler,  of  Stafford  County,  on 
Feb.  4,  1745.  May  12,  1749,  John  and  Mary  Carter,  of  Stafford, 
sold  to  brother  Josiah  Carter,  of  Lancaster,  95  acres  of  land  on 


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Corotoman  River,  part  of  a  tract  of  land  left  by  their  father, 
Henry  Carter,  "Gent./'  to  his  eldest  son,  Gainy  Carter,  who,  dying 
without  issue,  the  land  descended  to  John  Carter  as  next  eldest 
son  of  Henry  Carter. 
John  Carter  had  issue : 

I.  Richard  Carter.     No  data. 

II.  Merriman  Carter. 

III.  John  Carter,  born  May,  1752,  died  after  1840. 

IV.  Josiah  Carter. 

V.  Anne  Carter.     No  data. 

VI.  Harris  Carter.  The  census  of  1785  shows  that  Harris  Car- 
ter was  living  in  Stafford  County,  with  a  wife  and  four  children. 

VII.  Robert  Carter.     No  data. 

VIII.  Mary  Carter.     No  data. 

IX.  Frances  Carter.     No  data. 

X.  Catharine  Carter.     No  data. 

XI.  Elizabeth  Carter.     No  data. 

The  Carter  MSS.  says  that  all  the  sons  except  Harris  removed 
to  the  southern  counties.  I  find  traces  of  a  Merry  Carter,  Josiah 
Carter,  and  John  Carter  in  several  of  the  southern  counties,  who 
finally  settled  in  Bedford  County,  and  doubtless  were  the  sons  of 
John  Carter,  of  Stafford. 

The  following  disconnected  notes  are  given  with  the  hope  that 
some  descendant  may  have  private  records  that  will  supply  the 
missing  links.  The  use  of  the  names  Harris,  Lazvson,  and  Augus- 
tine, which  are  peculiar  to  the  Thomas  Carter  family,  furnishes 
another  bit  of  evidence  that  John,  Josiah,  and  Merry  Carter,  of 
Bedford,  belonged  to  that  family. 

The  records  of  the  French  and  Indian  War  give  the  name  of 
Merry  Carter  as  a  soldier  in  1758  from  both  Lunenburg  and  Bed- 
ford counties,  but  probably  refer  to  the  same  man.  In  1774  John 
Carter  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Buford's  company  of  Bedford  Co. 
Militia  in  Dunmore's  war.  Josiah  Carter  took  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance in  Henry  County  in  1777.  Between  1755  and  1775  they 
appear  in  the  deed  records  of  Lunenburg,  Pittsylvania,  Henry  and 
Bedford  Counties. 


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II.  Merry  Carter  of  Bedford  County  (probably  the  son  of 
John  Carter  of  Lancaster  County),  married  Frances  Leftwich, 
daughter  of  Augustine  Leftwich  of  Bedford  County,  and  had 
issue  as  follows : 

a.  Augustine  Carter,  married  Nancy  Pullen,  in  1790. 

b.  John  Carter,  married  Polly  Pullen  in  1789. 

c.  James  Carter. 

d.  William  L.  Carter. 

e.  Molly  Carter,  married  in  1782,  Joshua  Alston. 
d.  Nancy  Carter,  married  George  Reid. 

There  may  have  been  other  children,  but  the  Bedford  County 
records  do  not  contain  a  will  or  other  record  of  Merry  Carter's 
estate;  except  a  power  of  attorney,  dated  Oct.  17,  1818,  to  Isaac 
St.  Clair  of  Bedford  County,  from  the  above  mentioned  children 
of  Merry  and  Frances  Carter,  all  of  whom  were  then  living  in 
Davidson  County,  Tennessee.  St.  Clair  was  to  sell  for  them  a 
tract  of  land  on  Little  Otter,  Bedford  County,  Va.,  formerly 
owned  by  their  father,  Merry  Carter,  Dec'd ;  and  to  receive  all 
moneys  due  them  from  the  estate  of  their  grandfather  Augustine 
Leftwich,  Dec'd.  as  heirs  of  Frances  Carter,  deceased. 

Merry  Carter  appears  in  the  Bedford  deed  records  in  1761,  '69, 
'77>  '96,  and  18 16. 

III.  John  Carter  of  Bedford  stated  in  1840  that  he  was  88 
years  of  age,  which  would  make  the  year  of  his  birth  1752,  the 
same  as  that  of  John  Carter  son  of  John  of  Lancaster  ;  this  I  think 
is  a  strong  indication  that  they  were  one  and  the  same  person. 
He  had  wife  Frances,  born  in  1768  and  living  in  1830.  His  will  is 
not  of  record  in  Bedford,  but  the  deed  records  give  the  names  of 
his  sons,  John,  Jr.,  and  Lawson,  and  probably  of  a  son  David. 
In  1802,  David  Carter  and  Judith  Carter  (probably  his  wife) 
gave  a  deed  of  trust  on  a  part  of  a  tract  of  land  that  had  been 
sold  in  1789  to  John  Carter,  Sr.,  by  James  Buford. 

John  Carter  appears  in  the  Bedford  deed  records  in  1778,  '89. 
'99,  1805,  '06,  '17,  '18,  '20,  '22,  '25,  '27,  '30 — from  1820  on  appears 
as  "Sr."  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  appears  in  a  list 
of  pensioners  of  that  war  published  in  1840,  at  which  time  he  was 
88  years  of  age  and  was  then  residing  with  Thomas  Stewart.     His 


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pension  was  allowed  Apr.  26,  1830,  at  which  time  he  had  at  home 
a  wife  aged  62  years,  a  single  daughter  aged  28  years,  and  a  son 
Lawson.  He  enlisted  in  1779  and  served  2  years  as  a  private  in 
Capt.  Taylors  company,  under  a  Col.  Scott ;  and  was  at  the  siege 
of  Yorktown.  In  1820  John  Carter,  Sr.,  deeded  land  to  John 
Carter,  Jr.,  and  in  1827  to  his  son  Lawson  Carter.  He  may  have 
been  the  father  of  some  of  the  other  Carters  who  appear  in  the 
marriage  record. 

IV.  Josiah  Carter  was  security  at  the  marriage  of  James  An- 
thony in  Bedford  County  in  1772.  He  probably  owned  land  in 
Bedford  by  patent,  as  he  does  not  appear  in  the  deed  records  of 
that  county  until  1820,  '22  and  '28.  In  the  first  two  deeds  he  was 
styled  "Sr."  There  are  no  will  or  settlement  of  estates  of  Merry, 
or  John  Carter,  but  in  1832,  Thos.  Cottrell  settled  his  account  as 
administrator  of  the  estate  of  Josiah  Carter,  Dec'd.  A  Josiah 
Carter,  probably,  "Jr.,"  was  married  in  1817  to  Ann  Gaddy. 

Between  1800  and  1830  there  appeared  in  the  deed  records  of 
Bedford,  Wm.  Carter,  David  Carter,  Augustine  Carter,  Joseph 
Carter,  Sr.,  and  Field  Carter,  who  probably  were  sons  of  the  first 
three.  In  1818  there  was  a  division  of  the  estate  of  Joseph  Carter 
between  Joseph  Carter,  Joseph  G.  Wilson,  Josiah  McKenny  and 
wife  Polly,  Ammon  Carter,  Priscilla  Burnett,  and  Isham  Miles. 

There  was  an  allotment  of  the  estate  of  Harris  Carter  to  the 
children  of  Edward  Jones,  viz. :  Thomas  G.  J.,  Mary  E.,  Dolly, 
and  Joseph  H.  Jones. 

The  Bedford  County  marriage  records  show  the  following  Car- 
ter marriage  between  1782  and  1830,  which  I  am  unable  to  place: 

John  Carter  &  Polly  Pullen,  1789;  Augustine  Carter  to  Nancy 
Pullen,  1790;  David  Carter  &  Anne  Duefill,  1800;  Joel  Carter  & 
Nancy  Sinkler,  1804;  John  Carter  &  Mima  Gough,  1804;  Josiah 
Carter  &  Ann  Gaddy,  1817;  John  Carter  &  Magdalen  Hall,  1820; 
Braxton  Carter  &  Polly  Furlong,  1823;  John  L.  Carter  &  Lucy 
Eubank,  1825;  Fleming  Carter  &  Polly  Blankinship,  1827.  Mary 
Carter  &  Joshua  Alston,  1782 ;  Nancy  Carter  &  Ned  Matthews, 
1794;  Elizabeth  Carter  &  Aaron  Fuqua,  1796;  Febey  Carter  & 
Stephen  Callahan,  1796;  Polly  Carter  &  Arch'd  Pullen,  1807; 
Nancy  Carter  &  Thomas  Phelps,  1814;  Rebecca  Carter  &  Charles 


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Kerr,  1818;  Nancy  Carter  &  John  Wood,  1822;  Martha  E.  Carter 
&  John  Ellis,  1829. 

6.  Josiah  Carter  was  married  twice  (Carter  Family,  1858), 
but  name  of  first  wife  not  known.  He  was  married  July  24,  1753, 
to  Betty  Dogget,  daughter  of  William  Dogget,  who  probably  was 
a  grandson  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Dogget,  an  Episcopal  minister,  who 
died  in  Lancaster  in  1682. 

Josiah  Carter  voted  at  an  election  of  Burgesses  Jan.  15,  1752, 
"New  Style."  May  12,  1749,  he  purchased  95  acres  of  land  from 
his  brother  John  ;  and  Feb.  6,  1756,  138  acres  from  Thos.  Hubbard. 
The  inventory  of  his  personal  estate  was  recorded  July  13,  1763, 
and  included  among  other  things  "5  painted  plates,"  a  punch  bowl, 
a  pair  of  silver  clasps,  and  "four  pounds  weight  of  bookes."  The 
division  of  the  estate  names  wife  Betty,  and  children  George, 
Betty,  and  Nancy,  but  does  not  state  whether  they  were  the  issue 
of  the  first  or  last  wife.  This  George  Carter  was  probably  the 
George  Carter  who  married  Elizabeth  James  Nov.  16,  1780,  and 
had  one  child  in  1783. 

7.  Harry  Carter,  "Planter,"  in  Sept.,  1750,  added  to  the  land 
inherited  from  his  father  180  acres  from  Peter  Conway.  His 
sister  Catharine's  will  shows  that  he  was  married  prior  to  May, 
1749.  He  made  his  will  July  5,  1775,  it  is  supposed  as  he  was 
about  to  enter  the  Revolutionary  army.  This  will  was  probated 
June  17.  1784.     He  gave  all  his  land  and  other  estate  to  wife, 

i/  Lucretia,  during  her  widowhood,  after  which  it  was  to  be  divided 

between  his  son  Thomas  and  daughters  Lucretia,  Betty,  Chloe,  and 

—  Sinah.     The  inventory  of  his  estate  included  the  following  books  : 

a  Bible,   The  Connection  of  the  Old   &  New  Testament.  Drib." 

Court,  The  Prodigal  Son,  and  a  Parcel  of  old  Books. 

9.  Thomas  Carter,  only  son  of  Harry  Carter,  by  his  will  pro- 
bated in  Lancaster,  Feb.  16,  1824,  left  "the  land  which  was  my 
father  Harry  Carter's,"  to  his  daughters  Rebecca  and  Lucretia, 
and  they  failing  issue,  to  the  children  of  his  brothers-in-law,  Jos. 
Dale  and  Robt.  D.  Palmer.  Wife  Judith  to  have  all  the  rest  of 
his  estate  as  long  as  she  lived,  after  which  it  was  to  go  equally  to 
all  their  children,  viz. :  Dale,  Lucretia,  Rebecca,  and  Harriet. 


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io.  Lucretia  Carter  married  Jos.  Dale. 
ii.  Betty  Carter  married  Robt.  D.  Palmer. 

12.  Chloe  Carter  died  unmarried  in  1827,  leaving  her  estate  to 
her  nieces  and  nephew,  Dale,  Lucretia,  and  Rebecca  Carter. 

8.  Robert  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Henry  and  Anne  Harris 
Carter,  was  not  16  years  old  in  1732  when  his  father  made  his  will. 
About  1744  he  was  married  to  Winifred  Lunsford.  They  prob- 
ably lived  in  Lancaster  for  a  few  years,  but  were  in  Stafford  Feb. 
17,  1748,  when  their  third  son,  Robert,  Jr.,  was  born.  In  1760 
Robert  Carter  was  an  appraiser  of  the  estate  of  Solomon  Carter  in 
Stafford,  but  was  not  there  in  1785.  The  descendants  of  his  son 
Daniel  have  the  tradition  that  he  lived  in  Culpeper;  so  he  prob- 
ably removed  from  Stafford  to  that  county  between  1760  and  1785. 
It  is  certain  that  some  of  his  sons  lived  in  Culpeper ;  and  Robert 
Carter  probably  lived  with  them  and  did  not  own  land  in  that 
county,  as  its  records  contain  no  will  or  other  record  of  him.  The 
birth  records  of  the  children  of  Robert  and  Winifred  Carter  are 
taken  from  an  old  Bible  and  confirmed  by  the  Overwharton  Reg- 
ister for  part  of  them.     They  were : 

13.  William  Carter,  born  May  1,  1745. 

14.  Daniel  Carter,  born  December  22,  1746. 

15.  Robert  Carter,  born  Feb.  14,  1748. 

16.  Mary  Carter,  born  May  21,  1750. 

17.  Jedisiah  Carter,  born  July  29,  1752,  living  in  Stafford  in 
1785,  unmarried. 

18.  Milly  Carter,  born  May  22,  1755. 

19.  Henry  Carter,  born  June  28,  1757. 

20.  John  Carter,  born  Nov.  8,  1759. 

21.  Winny  Anne  Carter,  born  Dec.  4,  1762. 

22.  Frederick  Carter,  born  July  28,  1767. 

The  descendants  of  Robert  and  Winifred  Carter  have  been 
traced  only  through  their  son  Daniel  Carter,  but  before  proceed- 
ing with  these  will  give  some  notes  from  the  Culpeper  records 
that  probably  refer  to  the  other  sons  of  Robert  Carter,  as  they 
cannot  be  placed  in  any  other  branch  of  the  family. 


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Culpeper  Notes. 

Between  July  19,  1771,  and  Oct.  19,  1795,  William  Carter  ap- 
pears in  the  Culpeper  records  five  times  in  deeds  for  land,  negroes, 
etc.  June  19,  1797,  a  Wm.  E.  Carter  had  a  21-year  lease  of  a 
plantation  in  Culpeper  from  Robt.  Beverley  of  "Blandfield,"  and 
on  same  date  appointed  Robt.  Green,  Jr.,  his  attorney  as  he  was 
"going  to  move  his  family  a  long  distance  from  his  Beverley 
lease."  Wm.  Carter  married  Mary  Chester  May  3,  1789;  and  Wm. 
Carter  married  Susannah  Googe  (Gooch?)  Feb.  26,  1795.  After 
1800  there  was  another  Wm.  Carter  in  Culpeper,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Susannah  Gaines  Carter. 

In  1797  Henry  Carter  of  Culpeper  deeded  to  Frederick  Carter 
of  Richmond  County,  Georgia,  nine  negroes  and  other  personalty 
for  £1500  current  money.  This  may  have  been  the  Frederick  Car- 
ter who  married  Nancy  Jenkins  July  28,  1797. 

Oct.  19,  1795,  John  Carter  purchased  a  negro  and  other  per- 
sonalty from  William  Carter  (brothers?).  Deeds  for  land  in  1805 
and  1819,  wife  Rachel  in  1805.  Dec.  31,  1825,  John  Carter  of 
Montgomery  Co.,  Tenn.,  "formerly  of  Culpeper  Co.,  Va.,"  ap- 
pointed Richard  Field  his  attorney.  June  9,  1783,  the  inventory 
of  a  John  Carter  recorded. 

The  above  William,  Henry,  Frederick,  and  John  Carter  were 
probably  sons  of  Robert  and  Winifred  Carter.  There  was  also  in 
Culpeper  Thomas  Carter  and  his  sons,  cousins  of  Robert :  Wm. 
Champe  Carter  of  "Farley,"  and  Charles  Carter  and  wife  Betty 
Lewis,  both  of  the  Corotoman  Carters  ;  and  Joseph  W.,  and  Charles 
Carter  of  the  "Barford"  Carters.  Some  of  the  following  named 
Carters  were  probably  grandchildren  of  Robert  and  Winifred 
Lunsford  Carter: 

Daniel  H.  Carter,  and  Charles  R.  Carter  deeds  in  1817 — one 
indicates  they  were  brothers.  In  1824  Charles  Robert  Carter  of 
Madison,  formerly  of  Culpeper,  sold  1749  acres  in  Culpeper.  He 
married  Sally  Stout,  Dec.  6,  1832,  and  July  11,  1846,  his  inven- 
tory was  recorded  with  Sally  M.  Carter  as  Admx.  In  1789  Luns- 
ford Carter  had  a  deed  from  Birket  Davenport ;  in  1795  his  inven- 
tory was  recorded,  and  in  1798  his  widow,  Elizabeth,  sold  same 
land.     Oct.  30,  1805,  Birket  Carter  married  Nancy  Hawkins. 


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Unidentified  Carters  in  marriage  records :  Charles  Carter  to  Su- 
sannah Tapp,  Dec.  28,  1797;  Sally  Carter  to  Elliott  Herndon,  Dec. 
10,  1791 ;  Mary  Carter  to  Daniel  Zimmerman,  Feb.  6,  1794  (old 
letter  of  Polly  Davis  of  Spotsylvania  in  1789  speaks  of  Sally  and 
Polly  Carter  as  her  "cousins.'')  ;  Atary  Ann  Carter  to  Ephraim 
Barlow,  Jan.  27,  1789. 

-jT^  14.  Daniel  Carter,  born  in  Lancaster  or  Stafford  Dec.  22,  /\ 
1746,  second  son  of  Robert  and  Winifred,  married  in  Culpeper 
about  i77i-'72  Anne  Lemon.  The  Culpeper  marriage  records  do 
not  extend  this  far  back.  Later  they  removed  to  the  southern  part 
of  the  State,  probably  Franklin  County,  as  their  eldest  daughter 
was  married  there  in  1788;  still  later  they  settled  in  Robertson 
County,  Tenn.,  near  old  Mt.  Zion  church,  around  which  is  the 
Carter  burying  ground. 
They  had  issue : 

23.  Mary  Carter,  born  July  16,  1773  (old  Bible). 

24.  William  Carter,  born  June  23,  1775,  died  July  11,  1837. 

25.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  about  1777. 

26.  Nancy  Carter  (twin),  born  in  1790  in  Virginia.   *->~  / " 

27.  Catharine  Carter,  born  in  1790  in  Virginia. 

In  the  thirteen  years  between  1777  and  1790  it  is  very  probable 
that  Daniel  and  Anne  Lemon  Carter  had  other  children,  who 
doubtless  died  in  infancy. 

23.  Mary  Carter,  married  in  Franklin  County,  Va.,  May  26, 
1788,  Thomas  Plaster,  who  was  born  Oct.  30,  1767,  in  Charles 
Co.,  Pa.  They  have  descendants  living  now  at  Chandlerville,  111., 
and  Auburn,  Nebraska,  but  no  other  data  has  been  furnished  of 
them. 

24.  William  Carter  was  a  farmer  and  local  Baptist  minister. 
In  1802  he  was  married  near  Richmond,  Va.,  to  Ruth  Huff,  born 
in  Feb.,  1783,  died  July  12,  1843.  They  settled  near  Cooperstown, 
Robertson  Co.,  Tenn.,  and  had  issue : 

28.  Rachel  Carter,  born  Sept.  7,  1803.  Married  (1).  John  Du- 
lin;  (2).  Jas.  Maxey  in  1847;  (3)-  to  a  Mr.  Hackreeder. 

29.  Mary  Carter,  born  Nov.  3,  1805. 


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30.  Steven  Carter,  born  June  II,  1808,  died  Nov.  15,  1846,  un- 
married. 

31.  Nancy  Carter,  born  April  5,  1810,  died  in  1890. 

32.  Lavenia  Carter,  born  Aug.  1,  1812. 

33.  Ruth  Carter,  born  Aug.  2,  1816,  died  Feb.  17,  1890. 

34.  William  Carter,  born  July  21,  1817. 

35.  Henry  Carter,  born  April  1,  1819,  died  in  Oct.,  1892,  un- 
married. 

36.  Miles  A.  Carter,  born  Jan.  19,  1822,  died  in  1893,  unmar- 
ried. 

37.  Lavicia  A.  Carter,  born  Aug.  24,  1826,  married  Oct.  16, 
1850,  Patrick  M.  Carter  in  Robertson  County,  Tenn.,  and  re- 
moved to  Pleasant  Plains,  111. 

29.  Mary  Carter,  married  Dec.  15,  1825,  Dr.  John  Johnson 
Dunn,  of  Robertson  County,  Tenn.,  and  had  issue:  Nancy  J.,  born 
Sept.  24,  1826;  Wm.  L.,  born  Feb.  3,  1828,  never  married ;  Rachel 
M.,  born  Jan.  5,  1830.  never  married;  John  Robert,  M.  D.,  born 
Jan.  22,  1832;  Sarah  Lavinia,  born  May  7,  1834;  America  Calan- 
tha,  born  Oct.  29,  1837;  Virginia  Catharine,  born  Feb.  7,  1840; 
Mary  Jane,  born  June  9,  1843 ;  Martha  Anne  Stephens,  born  June 
22,  1845 !  and  Ruth  Frances,  born  March  4,  1848. 

31.  Nancy  Carter,  married  in  1832,  Isaac  Nane,  born  in  1805, 
died  in  1883,  in  Robertson  County,  Tenn.     They  had  issue : 

38.  Frances  Nane,  born  in  1833,  died  in  1873. 

39.  Ruth  Nane,  born  in  1837,  died  in  1874. 

40.  William  H.  Nane,  born  in  1841,  died  in  1893. 

41.  Mary  Nane,  born  in  1844,  died  in  1896. 

42.  Eliza  Nane,  born  in  1847. 

38.  Frances  Nane  married  John  David  Reeves  and  had  issue : 
G.  W.  Reeves,  a  Baptist  minister  who  lives  now  in  Oklahoma,  and 
has  sons  G.  W.,  Jr.,  and  Ritsy ;  Nancy  Reeves  married  Jos.  Miller, 
farmer,  Springfield,  Tenn.,  and  has  Frances,  Charles  R.,  Fred- 
erick H.,  and  Ruth — all  unmarried ;  John  H.  Reeves,  a  physician 
at  Coopertown,  Tenn.,  has  two  sons,  Charles  and  Rabon;  and 
Isaac  E.  Reeves,  an  attorney  at  law,  McKinney,  Texas,  and  has 
one  son,  Martin  Winn  Reeves. 


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40.  William  H.  Nane,  farmer,  Robertson  County,  Tenn., 
served  in  the  Confederate  army  during  the  war.  He  married 
Susan  Pilen  and  had  issue :  Clarence  E. ;  Clara  married  Atchison 
Copley  and  had  a  daughter,  Susan,  who  married  S.  D.  James  and 
has  a  son,  Copley  James  ;  Isaac  S.,  living  in  California,  unmarried  ; 
J.  L.  Nane.     All  are  dead  but  I.  S.  Nane. 

42.  Eliza  Nane,  married  Rufus  L.Miller,  and  lives  near  Joel- 
ton,  Tenn. 

33.  Ruth  Carter,  married  William  Nane,  Robertson  Co., 
Tenn.,  on  Nov.  14,  1839.  They  had  two  children,  one  of  whom  died 
in  infancy,  and  the  other,  Susan  Ellen  Nane,  married  Jan.  2,  1867, 
George  T.  Williams.  They  had  issue :  Mary  Miriam,  born  July 
16,  1870,  married  Dec.  28,  1884,  William  S.  Davis,  and  had  a 
daughter,  Myrtle  W.  Davis,  who  married  in  1907  C.  M.  Kirk- 
patrick;  William  Robert  Williams,  born  Oct.  4,  1872,  living  now 
at  Eldorado,  Oklahoma;  and  Sallie  R.  Williams,  born  Jan.  29, 
1874,  living  now  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 

25.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  circa  1777,  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Anne  Lemon  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Farmer,  and  in  1834  was 
living  in  Illinois  on  the  banks  of  the  Ohio.     No  other  data  of  them. 

26.  Nancy  Carter,  born  in  1790  in  Franklin  County  (  ?),  Vir- 
ginia. She  married  Rev.  Thomas  Martin,  a  Methodist  minister, 
son  of  George  Martin  and  his  wife,  a  Miss  McFeran,  who  removed 
from  Virginia  to  Robertson  Co.,  Tenn.  Nancy  Carter  Martin 
died  in  Robertson  Co.,  Tenn.,  in  183 1,  and  her  husband  in  1855. 
They  have  descendants  living  near  Mt.  Zion  Church,  in  that 
county. 

27.  Catharine  Carter,  born  in  1790,  in  Virginia,  probably 
Franklin  county,  was  married  in  Robertson  county,  Tenn.,  to  Rev. 
Thos.  Spence,  a  Methodist  minister  who  lived  on  a  fine  farm  about 
six  miles  from  Springfield  in  that  county.  He  was  the  eldest  son 
of  David  and  Mary  McElyea  Spence  and  was  born  near  the  Yad- 
kin River  in  Surrey  county,  N.  C.  David  Spence  was  born  in 
New  Jersey  and  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Spence,  who  came  from 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  315 

Scotland  to  New  Jersey  and  married  there  Sarah  Herriman, 
daughter  of  David  Herriman,  who  had  emigrated  to  America 
from  Wales.  "David  Spence  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  war 
under  Gen.  Marion.  While  the  troops  were  passing  the  home  of 
Mary  McElyea  (in  North  Carolina)  she  helped  to  give  them  water, 
and  he  was  so  pleased  with  her  that  he  came  back  after  the  war 
and  married  her.  She  lived  until  after  the  Civil  War  and  was 
one  hundred  and  four  years  old,  straight  as  an  arrow,  and  had 
never  taken  but  one  dose  of  medicine."  Thomas  Spence  re- 
moved his  family  in  1828  to  Union  county,  Illinois,  where  his  wife 
died  April  8,  1833,  and  he  in  1835.  They  are  buried  near  Anna, 
111.    They  had  issue: 

43.  David,  died  at  the  age  of  four  years. 

44.  Anne,  married  her  cousin Spence. 

45.  Isaac,  married  twice.  He  died  in  1876  at  Houston,  Texas, 
where  he  has  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Samuel  Allen,  living  now. 

46.  William,  died  in  Bardstown,  111. 

47.  Mary  Lemon,  married  twice.  First  a  Mr.  Cannon,  second 
a  Mr.  Ritchie  and  died  near  Corsicana,  Texas,  where  her  descen- 
dants now  live. 

48.  Nancy  Martin,  married  twice.  First  a  Mr.  Peterson,  sec- 
ond a  Mr.  Madden.  Died  in  Vienna,  111.  Her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Ruth  Chapman,  lives  there. 

49.  Absalom  Martin,  died  in  Texas. 

50.  Sarah  Catharine,  married  twice  in  Beardstown,  111.  First 
Thomas  Saunders,  second  Norman  Parsons.  She  had  issue : 
John  Saunders,  who  married  Emma  Taylor,  and  has  issue :  Agnes, 
Ethel  and  Thomas,  lives  at  Aspen,  Colo. ;  George  Saunders,  mar- 
ried Emma  Miller,  and  lives  in  Beardstown,  111. ;  and  Elva  Jane 
Saunders,  living  at  Beardstown. 

51.  Sinah  B.,  died  in  infancy. 

52.  Lydia  Paralee,  married  James  McClure,  of  Philadelphia. 
Both  died  at  Beardstown,  111.  They  had  issue :  William,  died  in 
Beardstown ;  Catharine  married  Arthur  Dolan  and  has  Charles 
and  Elizabeth, — lives  at  Spokane  Falls,  Washington ;  Elva  Jane, 
married  Charles  Critzer  and  lives  at  Spokane  Falls,  Wash. ; 
Charles  McClure  lives  at  San  Francisco ;  Frank  McClure  married 


3l6       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Gertrude  Chalfant  and  has  Effie  and  Paralee, — lives  at  Beards- 
town  ;  Edward  McClure  married  Anna  Wolf  and  has  son  Edwin, 
— lives  at  Beardstown,  111. 

53.  Elva  Jane,  married  John  McClure,   of   Philadelphia,  and 
had  no  issue.    Both  died  at  Beardstown,  111. 

Is  54-  Elizabeth    Peters    Spence,    born   in   Robertson   county, 

Tenn.,  Sept.  16,  1822.  In  1828  she  was  taken  to  Union  county, 
111.,  when  her  parents  removed  to  that  place,  where  they  died  in 
1833  and  '34.  In  Oct.,  1835,  she,  with  her  sisters  and  brothers, 
went  to  live  with  their  brother  Isaac  Spence  at  Beardstown,  Cass 
county,  111.  Here  she  met  and  married  Charles  Joseph  Norbury, 
son  of  Judge  Joseph  Britt  Norbury,  of  Philadelphia,  whose  fam- 
ily is  one  of  the  oldest  in  England.  They  were  married  Jan.  9, 
1839,  and  had  issue  :  (1)  Rebecca  Catharine,  married  David  Henry 
Flickwir,  of  Philadelphia,  and  lives  now  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
They  have  issue,  Jerry  Williamson  married  Alice  Schielschott ; 
Elizabeth  Norbury  married  Malcolm  Wallace ;  David  Henry,  Jr. 
married  Lottie  Thomas ;  Joseph  W.,  Arthur  Heath  married  a 
Miss  Guinn.  (2)  William  Spence  Norbury,  died  at  Beardstown. 
(3)  Lydia  Jane  Norbury  married  Samuel  Dale  and  had  a  daugh- 
ter, Grace  Weston  Dale.  Her  husband  and  daughter  are  buried 
at  Canon  City,  Colo.  (4)  Martha  Paralee  Norbury,  married  Os- 
car Kuechler,  of  Berlin,  Germany,  now  living  at  Jacksonville, 
111.  They  have  two  children,  Henry  Norbury  Kuechler,  a  civil 
engineer,  who  married  Mary  Foster,  of  San  Rafael,  Cal.,  and 
lone  Selma  Kuechler.  (5)  Arthur  Frick  Norbury  married  Hal- 
lie  Millard  and  lives  at  Denver,  Colo.  They  have  sons,  Arthur 
LeRoy,  and  Henry  Joseph.  (6)  Elizabeth  S.  Norbury,  living  now 
in  St.  Louis.  (7)  Nellie  Cutter  Norbury  married  John  Burns  and 
had  one  son,  Frank  Norbury.  She  and  her  son  are  buried  at 
Beardstown.  (8)  Anne  Carter  Norbury,  married  Wm.  D.  Epler, 
of  Beardstown,  111.,  and  has  two  children,  Mary  L.,  and  Earl  Nor- 
bury. (9)  Frank  Parsons  Norbury,  a  distinguished  physician  of 
Springfield,  111.  At  one  time  he  was  president  of  the  Mississippi 
Valley  Medical  Association.  He  married  Mary  Garm  and  has 
two  children,  Frank  Garm,  and  Elizabeth.  (10)  Mary  Gertrude 
Norbury  married  Gustave  B.  Hegardt,  civil  engineer,  of  Stock- 


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317 


holm,  Sweden,  now  living  in  Portland,  Oregon.    They  have  three 
children,  James  Norbury,  Mary  Elizabeth,  and  Nellie. 

In  the  Norbury  family  is  the  tradition  that  Daniel  Carter,  their 
ancestor  who  removed  from  Virginia  to  Tennessee,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Revolution. 


Descendants  of  James  Carter,  Elizabeth  Carter 

and  Katherine  Carter,  Sons  and 

Daughters  of  Capt.  Thomas 

and  Catharine  Carter 


Descendants  of  James  Carter  of  Lancaster 
and  Stafford  Counties,  Va. 

James  Carter,  eighth  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Catharine  Dale 
Carter,  was  born  at  "Barford",  Lancaster  county,  on  "Christmas 
Day,  1684,  it  being  a  Thursday  at  2  in  ye  Morns  &  was  Christnd 
at  Home  on  Sunday.  Mr.  Jno :  Edwards,  Mr.  Tho :  Wilkes  & 
Mrs.  Edwards  standing  as  Godparts." 

James  Carter  was  married  twice,  first  on  Oct.  3,  1715,  to  Han- 
nah Neale,  daughter  of  Daniel  Neale,  presumably  of  the  North- 
umberland family. 

"M1"8.  Hannah  Carter  Departd  this  life  on  9th  Octo.,  1722,  and 
left  a  sorrowful  Husband  and  4  tender  Children  Tho.  Dan1.  Presly, 
and  Hannah."  On  Aug.  12,  1724,  the  "sorrowful  Husband"  con- 
soled himself  with  another  bride  in  the  person  of  Mary,  daughter 
of  Hugh  Brent,  of  Lancaster.  They  removed  to  Stafford  county, 
where  "Mr.  James  Carter,  of  Stafford"  had  the  following  grants 
of  land  in  that  county:  393  acres,  Feb.  5,  1725  ;  1,137  acres  Sept. 
26,  1726 — his  brother  Joseph,  of  Lancaster,  was  a  half  owner  in 
this,  but  later  sold  out  to  James;  188  acres,  April  19,  1728;  549 
acres  in  King  George  county,  Oct.  18,  1727;  and  605  acres  in 
Prince  William  county  above  the  Falls  of  the  Potomac,  adjoining 
land  of  the  said  Carter,  June  13,  1731.  Thus  he  owned  about 
twenty-nine  hundred  acres,  besides  what  he  may  have  had  from 
private  parties.  The  mutilated  condition  of  the  Stafford  records 
makes  it  impossible  to  obtain  very  full  data  of  this  branch  of  the 
family. 

The  Overwharton  Register  says  that  James  Carter,  "an  honest, 
good  man,"  died  Oct.  24,  1743.  The  will  book  for  this  period  is 
missing,  but  the  old  order  books  show  during  the  next  ten  years 
numerous  mention  of  Charles  Brent  as  executor  of  "Mr.  James 
Carter,  Deed"  and  also  guardian  of  his  younger  children.  From 
the  old  Carter  Prayer  Book  and  the  Overwharton  Register  we 
find  that  James  Carter  had  issue  as  follows : 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  32 1 

First  Marriage. 

1.  Thomas  Carter,  no  other  data. 

2.  Daniel  Carter,  no  other  data. 

3.  Hannah  Carter,  no  other  data. 

4.  Presley  Carter,  no  other  data. 
Second  marriage. 

5.  Joseph  Carter,  born  in  1725,  probably  in  Lancaster  at  his 
grandfather  Brent's  in  accordance  with  a  custom  of  those  days. 

6.  John  Carter,  born  May  7,  1727,  in  Stafford. 

7.  James  Carter,  born  Mar.  31,  1729,  in  Stafford. 

8.  William  Carter,  born  Jan.  11,  1731,  in  Stafford  (twin). 

9.  George  Carter,  born  Jan.  11,  1731,  in  Stafford  (twin). 

10.  Catharine  Carter,  born  April  1,  1735,  in  Stafford. 

11.  Hugh  Carter,  born  Nov.  8,  1740,  in  Stafford. 

12.  Charles  Carter,  born  Oct.  10,  1743,  in  Stafford. 

5.  Joseph  Carter,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Mary  Brent  Carter, 
with  his  brothers,  John  and  George  Carter,  heirs  of  James  Carter, 
Dec'd  had  a  grant  on  Sept.  4,  1747,  for  1,137  acres  of  land 
formerly  granted  to  their  father  and  his  brother  Joseph  Carter, 
of  Lancaster  county.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  brother 
William  Carter  probated  in  Stafford  in  1761,  and  does  not  appear 
again  in  the  Stafford  records.  The  census  of  1785  mentions  a 
Joseph  Carter,  of  Stafford,  head  of  a  family  of  three. 

He  may  have  been  the  Joseph  Carter,  ancestor  of  the  Carters 
of  Bath  and  Morgan  counties,  Kentucky.  They  have  a  tradition 
that  their  ancestor,  Joseph  Carter  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  after  that  emigrated  to  Kentucky,  and  settled  on  a  farm 
in  Bath  county.  This  Joseph  Carter  had  a  son,  Dr.  Benjamin 
Carter,  of  Bath  county,  and  a  son  Joseph,  who  was  14  years  old 
when  they  removed  to  Kentucky.  Joseph,  Jr.,  married  Betsy 
Scott,  said  to  have  been  a  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Scott,  of  Prince 
William  county,  Va.,  son  of  Rev.  James  Scott  of  same  county, 
who  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  Alex.  Scott,  of  Stafford — all  distin- 
guished ministers  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Virginia  prior  to 
the  Revolution.  Rev.  James  Scott  was  also  an  ancestor  of  the 
well-known  families  of  Bullitt  and  Blackburn,  of  Kentucky,  and 
Washington,  of  Jefferson  county,  Va. 


322       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Joseph  Carter,  Jr.,  represented  Morgan  county,  Ky.,  in  the 
State  Legislature  in  1844.  He  had  issue:  Asa,  Cynthia,  Benj.  F., 
Dr.  Willis  Green,  Winifred,  Polly,  Margaret,  and  Frances. 

6.  John  Carter,  born  May  7,  1727,  in  Stafford,  died  in  that 
county  in  1790.  In  addition  to  being  a  planter,  he  was  a  "House 
Joyner"  by  trade,  as  in  his  day  it  was  the  rule  that  every  boy 
should  be  apprenticed  to  learn  some  trade,  unless  he  was  heir  to 
a  very  great  fortune.  June  12,  1759,  Thomas  Thacker,  orphan  of 
Thomas  Thacker,  of  King  George  county,  apprenticed  himself  to 
John  Carter,  "Joyner,"  of  Stafford,  binding  himself  not  to  "play 
at  cards,  or  dice  or  any  other  unlawful  games."  John  Carter  was 
married  circa,  i750-'5i  to  Leanna  .  .  The  Overwharton  Reg- 
ister records  the  birth  of  two  of  their  sons,  but  they  had  other 
children ;  one,  probably  a  daughter,  was  at  home  with  them  in 
1785.     They  were: 

13.  James  Carter,  born  Ju'y  17,  1751,  died  in  1793. 

14.  John  Carter,  Jr.,  born,  June  1,  1754,  died  in  1791. 

In  June,  1790,  William  Edwards  gave  security  as  executor  of 
the  estate  of  John  Carter,  Sr.,  and  in  Sept.  of  same  year  was 
summoned  by  the  court  to  settle  the  estates  of  John  and  Leartna 
Carter,  Dec'd. 

13.  James  Carter,  was  the  head  of  a  family  of  seven  in  the 
census  of  1785.  Dec.  4,  1785,  James  Carter  and  wife  Malinda,  of 
Overwharton  parish,  Stafford,  made  a  deed  for  62  acres  to  Chas. 
Porter;  and  in  July,  1792,  they  acknowledged  a  bill  of  sale  to 
Edw.  Norman.  James  Carter  had  a  judgment  against  Wm. 
Sharpe  at  the  March  court  in  1793.  An  old  index  volume  shows 
that  his  inventory  of  estate  was  recorded  in  1793.  They  probably 
were  the  parents  of  John  Carter,  who  on  April  4,  1803,  had  an 
assignment  of  a  lease  from  Wm.  Edwards,  his  grandfather,  John 
Carter's  executor.  Nov.  27,  1807,  this  John  Carter,  of  Stafford, 
gave  a  deed  of  trust  on  four  beds  and  furniture,  a  mahogany 
dining  table,  "beaufet,"  desk,  bookcase,  candle  stand,  dressing 
table,  looking  glass,  walnut  table,  a  dozen  Windsor  chairs,  eleven 
silver  spoons,  and  a  parcel  of  earthen  and  china  ware,  kitchen 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  323 

utensils,  etc.,  at  his  home  in  the  town  of  Woodstock,  Stafford 
county. 

14.  John  Carter,  Jr.,  born  June  1,  1754,  died  a  year  after  his 
father,  leaving  six  children  under  21  years  of  age.  In  March, 
1792,  Joseph  Reddish,  guardian  of  Wrenn  Carter,  Robert  Carter, 
Hannah  Carter,  Nancy  Carter,  Hugh  Carter,  and  Thomas  Carter, 
orphans  of  John  Carter,  brought  suit  against  Wm.  Edwards,  ex- 
ecutor of  John  Carter,  Sr.,  their  grandfather. 

Sept.  17,  1799,  Wrenn  Carter,  "House  Joiner*'  of  Prince  Wil- 
liam county,  sold  his  right  and  title  to  two  negro  girls,  which  he 
brought  suit  that  day  to  recover  from  his  brother  Thomas  Car- 
ter, who  was  a  non-resident  of  the  State.  Which  slaves  were  al- 
loted  to  the  said  Thomas  Carter  as  his  proportion  of  "our  De- 
ceased father  John  Carter's  estate  allotted  by  the  Commissioners 
appointed  by  the  Court  of  Stafford  county,  subjected  to  the  sum 
of  £13  .4  4d.,  which  sum  I  have  accounted  for  and  paid  my  father's 
other  legatees." 

7.  James  Carter,  third  son  of  James  and  Mary  Brent  Carter, 
seems  to  have  inherited  his  father's  plantation  of  509  acres  in 
King  George  county,  and  does  not  appear  in  the  Stafford  records 
after  the  settlement  of  his  fathers  estate,  except  in  the  Over- 
wharton  Register,  which  states  that  Catharine,  daughter  of  James 
and  Rachel  Carter  was  born  April  21,  1754. 

In  1758  James  and  Rachel  Carter  leased  to  George  Strother  a 
hundred  acres  of  their  land  in  King  George  county,  and  a  year 
later  released  him  from  the  same.  They  probably  were  the  parents 
of  sons,  James  and  Lewis  Carter,  of  King  George  county.  Nov. 
11,  1782,  James  Carter,  of  King  George  county,  purchased  from 
Nehemiah  and  Sarah  Rosdel  a  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Orange 
county,  and  on  Oct.  24,  1809,  James  Carter  and  wife  Frances,  of 
King  George,  sold  the  same  land  to  brother  Lewis  Carter,  of 
King  George. 

8.  William  Carter,  born  1731,  married  and  died  in  Stafford. 
His  will  probated  Dec.  22,  1761,  names  wife  Catharine,  and  bro- 
thers Joseph  and  John  Carter,  all  of  Stafford.  No  children  men- 
tioned. 


324       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

9.  George  Carter,  the  twin  brother  of  William,  inherited  a 
third  of  the  1,137  acres  mentioned  before,  and  settled  in  Stafford. 
In  1777,  George  Carter,  of  Stafford,  paid  Wm.  Green,  of  Cul- 
peper,  £700  for  an  improved  plantation  of  184  acres  in  Culpeper, 
and  Sept.  14,  1778,  George  Carter  and  wife  Sally,  of  Stafford, 
sold  the  same  to  Henry  Field  and  Leonard  Barnes.  The  census 
of  1785  does  not  name  George  Carter  among  the  heads  of  families 
in  Stafford.  The  old  general  index  shows  that  a  Geo.  Carter 
died  in  1813. 

10.  Catharine  Carter,  only  daughter  of  James  Carter  and 
his  second  wife,  was  married  Nov.  27,  1755,  to  William  Davis. 
No  other  data. 

11.  Hugh  Carter,  born  Nov.  8,  1740,  was  evidently  named 
for  his  grandfather  Brent.  Aug.  15,  1769,  Hugh  Carter,  of  Pr. 
William  county,  deeded  to  William  Davis,  a  sorrel  horse  and 
feather  bed.  This  Wm.  Davis  may  have  been  Carter's  brother- 
in-law.    No  other  data  of  Hugh  Carter. 

12.  Charles  Carter,  youngest  son  of  James  and  Mary  Carter, 
of  Stafford,  probably  was  the  Charles  Carter,  who  died  in  Cul- 
peper in  1781 — inventory  of  his  estate  recorded  Dec.  29,  1781, 
amounted  to  £138.25.,  and  included  besides  a  good  lot  of  furni- 
ture, a  dozen  pieces  of  china,  and  six  "whole  books''  and  some 
pieces.  The  furnishings  of  his  home  indicated  that  he  had  a  fam- 
ily. He  may  have  been  the  father  of  Charles  Carter,  who  mar- 
ried Susannah  Tapp,  in  Culpeper,  Dec.  28,  1797;  Mary  Carter, 
who  married  Daniel  Zimmerman,  Feb.  6,  1794;  and  of  Sallie  Car- 
ter, married  Elliott  Herndon,  Dec.  10,  179 1.  A  granddaughter 
of  Joseph  Carter,  of  Spotsylvania,  in  a  letter  written  in  1789  men- 
tions the  above  named  Sally  and  Polly  Carter,  and  speaks  of  them 
as  cousins.  Says  that  Elliot  Herndon  was  very  attentive  to  Sal- 
lie. 


Descendants  of  Peter  Carter  of  Lancaster 
County,  Va. 

Peter,  the  ninth  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Katharine  Dale  Car- 
ter, "was  born  near  midnight  23d  May,  1688,  &  Baptzd  on  3d 
June.  Mr.  Edwin  Conway,  Mr.  Tho :  Dudley  &  Mrs.  Ann  drown- 
ing standing."    He  died  in  1721. 

Peter  Carter  and  his  brother  Joseph,  inherited  their  grandfather 
Dale's  home  plantation  in  St.  Mary's  parish,  and  on  Jan.  22,  1712, 
they  divided  it  accordang  to  his  will,  both  "now  being  above  the 
age  of  one  and  twenty  years.''  All  the  rest  of  the  Carters  lived 
in  Christ  Church  parish. 

Peter  Carter  is  said  to  have  been  married  three  times ;  his  first 
wife  was  his  first  cousin  Catharine  Rogers,  to  whom  he  was  mar- 
ried Sept.  23,  1712.  His  last  wife  was  named  Margaret.  Noth- 
ing is  known  of  the  second  wife,  if  there  was  one.  His  widow, 
Margaret  Carter,  married  Capt.  Robert  Galbraith  on  June  26, 
1722,  less  than  a  year  after  the  death  of  Peter  Carter.  His  will 
made  July  5,  1721,  and  probated  Oct.  11,  1721,  devised  his  home 
plantation  to  son  Moses,  and  best  bed  and  furniture  to  wife  Marga- 
ret. Rest  of  the  estate  equally  between  wife  Margaret,  son  Moses 
and  daughter  Margaret,  children  of  "my  now  wife,"  and  "my  other 
two  children  Aaron  and  Catharine  Carter."  Wife  and  brothers 
Thomas  and  Henry  executors.  Appraisement  amounted  to  £195. 
His  funeral  expenses  were  £2  .is  .id. ;  and  Dr.  Thomas  Sandford's 
bill  for  medicine  and  attendance  was  £3  4s  .6d. 

1.  Aaron  Carter. 

2.  Catharine  Carter. 

3.  Moses  Carter. 

4.  Margaret  Carter. 

1.  Aaron  Carter,  eldest  son  of  Peter  Carter,  was  probably  a 
son  of  his  first  wife,  Catharine  Rogers.  He  probably  became  of 
age  about  1738,  as  Aug.  11,  1738,  he  gained  a  suit  against  his 
guardian,  Robert  Galbraith,  who  was  also  the  husband  of  his  step- 


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GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


mother,  for  six  hundred  pounds  of  tobacco,  besides  a  crop  of  to- 
bacco and  a  crop  of  corn  growing  on  his  land  and  a  negro  man 
named  Caesar.  April  n,  1740,  Aaron  Carter  sold  to  his  uncle, 
Joseph  Carter,  100  acres  and  improvements  in  St.  Mary's  parish, 
giving  possession  in  the  old  English  manner  "by  the  delivery  of 
Turfe  and  twigg  in  the  name  and  token  of  seizen  of  all  land  and 
premises  within  mentioned  in  the  presence  of  Dale  Carter,  Wm. 
George,  and  Gawin  Lowry."  His  wife  Martha,  signed  a  release 
deed  on  this  date. 

Dec.  14,  1772,  Aaron  Carter's  personal  estate,  amounting  to 
£302  .13s,  was  devided  between  his  widow  and  children.  The 
widow,  Martha  Carter  received  three  negroes,  best  bed  in  the 
large  room,  chest  of  drawers,  large  oval  table,  clothes  press,  flag 
chairs,  etc.  The  five  children  each  received  one  negro  and  a  fifth 
part  of  the  remainder.  Martha  Carter,  widow,  died  in  1782. 
Her  inventory  returned  to  court  in  June,  1782.  Aaron  and  Mar- 
tha Carter  had  issue :  Katharine ;  Molly  married  Edwin  Luns- 
ford,  Nov.  11,  1772;  Mildred;  Elizabeth  married  Phillip  Brooks, 
prior  to  Dec.  14,  1772,  and  Aaron  Carter,  Jr.,  under  age  in  1772. 
No  further  data  of  any  of  these. 

3.  Moses  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Peter  Carter,  of  White 
Chapel  parish,  made  his  will  Jan.  3,  1740,  probated  April  11, 
1740.  He  left  a  negro  to  his  mother  Margaret  Galbraith,  and  his 
plantation  to  his  brother  Aaron  Carter.  Appraisement  of  his 
personal  estate  included  a  pair  of  silver  shoe  buckles  and  a  pair 
of  knee  buckles. 

4.  Margaret  Carter,  youngest  daughter  of  Peter  Carter,  is 
said  to  have  married  a  Mr.  Thornton — tradition  in  the  Starke 
family  descended  from  Tabitha  Carter  Starke.  They  had  a 
daughter  Prudence  Thornton,  who  married  Capt.  John  English, 
of  King  George  county,  and  their  daughter  Sarah  English  mar- 
ried John  Carter  Starke,  son  of  Tabitha  Carter  and  Jeremiah 
Starke.     See  under  the  head  of  Starke. 


The  Daughters  of  Capt.  Thomas  and 
Catharine  Dale  Carter 

Elizabeth  Carter,  the  eldest  daughter,  married  William  George, 
of  Lancaster  county,  June  15,  1698.  He  died  in  1710,  leaving  all 
his  estate  to  wife  and  children,  unnamed  in  will.  She  probably, 
married  again.  They  probably  were  the  ancestors  of  the  Metho- 
dist Bishop  George,  of  Lancaster. 

Katharine  Carter,  married  John  Lawson,  June  16,  1703.  The 
Carter  MSS.  of  1858,  says  she  married  a  Mr.  Tabb — probably  a 
second  marriage. 


Descendants  of  Joseph  Carter,  Youngest  Son 
of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Catharine  Carter 


Carters,    Bronaughs,    Beales,   Herefords,    Mitchells.    Blackwells, 
Striblings,  Starkes,  Breckinridges,  and  others  of  Vir- 
ginia, West  Virginia,  Georgia,  Missouri,  Ohio  and 
other  States. 


Joseph  Carter,  Gent.,  of  "Oakland," 

Lancaster  County,  Virginia, 

and  His  Descendants 

Joseph  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Katharine 
Dale  Carter,  "owned  a  fine  plantation  called  'Daleland'  near  old 
White  Chapel  church,  where  he  lived  in  considerable  style." — 
Carter  MSS.,  1858. 

He  was  born  "Friday,  28  Nov.,  1690,  &  Christnd  at  home  on 
10th  Decr.  Mr.  Rob1.  Carter  &  Mr.  Joseph  Ball  Godfath8  &  Ms.  Ju- 
dith Carter  Godmother." — Carter  Prayer  Book. 

According  to  the  will  of  Maj.  Edward  Dale,  his  grandsons 
Peter  and  Joseph  Carter  inherited  his  home  plantation  of  some 
six  hundred  acres  in  St.  Mary's  White  Chapel  parish,  a  negro 
man  servant  each,  and  other  personal  property,  when  they  ar- 
rived at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.  In  January,  1712,  Peter 
and  Joseph  Carter  being  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  de- 
vided  this  plantation,  and  probably  went  to  live  on  it,  as  ever 
after  that  he  appeared  in  the  records  as  Joseph  Carter,  "Planter" 
or  "Gent,  of  St.  Mary's  White  Chapel  parish."  In  1724  he 
added  to  his  farm  a  tract  of  133  acres  from  John  Marshall,  and 
April  11,  1740,  a  hundred  acres  from  his  nephew  Aaron  Carter, 
son  of  Peter  Carter,  possession  of  which  was  given  in  the  old 
English  fashion  "by  the  delivery  of  Turfe  and  twigg  in  the 
name  and  token  of  seizen  of  all  land  and  premises  within  men- 
tioned in  the  presence  of  Dale  Carter,  Wra.  George,  and  Gawin 
Lowry." 

Joseph  Carter,  Gent.,  had  a  grant  for  147  acres  in  Lancaster 
county,  Feb.  8,  1729;  Sept.  26,  1726,  he,  with  his  brother,  James 
had  a  grant  for  1,137  acres  in  Stafford  county,  and  63  acres  in 
1724.  Joseph  Carter  also  owned  other  land  in  Lancaster  and  Staf- 
ford as  shown  by  the  disposition  of  it  in  his  will,  but  I  have  no 
data  of  its  purchase  by  him ;  it  may  have  been  land  inherited  from 
his  father  and  grandfather,  as  he  shared  in  their  residuary  es- 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  331 

tates.  March  19,  1714,  Joseph  Carter  purchased  from  John  Pines, 
for  £96  sterling,  a  negro  man  named  Punch,  a  negro  woman  named 
Nan,  two  beds  and  furniture,  six  leather  chairs,  a  chest  of  draw- 
ers, and  some  kitchen  utensils.  This  John  Pines  was  probably 
either  the  father-in-law  or  brother-in-law  of  Joseph  Carter,  as 
the  old  Prayer  Book  says,  that  "Joseph  Carter  &  Ann  Pines  was 
married  on  23  Dec,  1713." 

In  1729  and  subsequently,  Joseph  Carter  was  a  justice  on  the 
County  bench  of  Lancaster;  and  Nov.  25,  1741,  "Mr.  Joseph  Car- 
ter, Shcrif"  made  oath  before  Mr.  Edwin  Conway  as  to  the  true 
return  of  a  poll  for  the  election  of  Burgesses.  The  fragmentary 
vestry  book  of  St.  Mary's  parish  shows  that  Joseph  Carter  was  a 
member  of  the  vestry  of  that  parish  from  1743  until  his  death 
in  1764,  and  in  1754  was  one  of  the  church  wardens. 

Col.  James  Gordon,  in  his  diary,  under  date  of  Aug.  11,  1761, 
says :  "Mr.  Hunt  and  old  Mr.  Joe  Carter  to  dinner  .  .  .  Had  much 
discourse  with  old  Mr.  Carter  and  gave  him  a  book  to  read.'' 

Aug.  31,  1724,  Richd  Chichester,  Esq.  made  a  deed  of  gift  to 
"Judith,  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Joseph  Carter''  for  a  negro  boy 
named  "Gift."  Mr.  Chichester  was  probably  Judith  Carter's  god- 
father and  for  that  reason  made  her  so  valuable  a  present.  In 
1734,  Richd  Chichester,  Esq.,  made  "my  friend  Joseph  Carter" 
one  of  his  executors  and  gave  a  mourning  ring  each,  to  his  friends, 
Joseph  Carter  and  his  wife,  Mrs.  Anne  Carter. 

Joseph  Carter,  Gent.,  of  White  Chapel  parish,  Lancaster,  made 
his  will,  Jan.  12,  1764,  which  was  probated  Aug.  19,  1765.  He 
gave  his  plantation  in  Stafford  to  son  Jeremiah,  and  divided  his 
lands  in  Lancaster  between  his  sons  Joseph,  George  and  Henry. 
Gave  son  Joseph  his  Chariot  and  three  horses,  his  watch  and  gold 
rings,  etc.  His  negroes  and  other  personal  property  equally  to 
all  children.  Son,  Joseph  Carter  and  nephew,  Dale  Carter,  execu- 
tors.   Joseph  and  Ann  Pines  Carter  had  issue : 

1.  Joseph  Carter,  Jr.,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1771. 

2.  George  Carter,  died  in  Lancaster  in  1791. 

3.  Henry  Carter  (youngest  son)  died  in  Lancaster  after  1785. 

4.  Jeremiah  Carter,  died  in  Stafford,  Feb.  2,  1781. 

5.  Judith  Carter,  no  data. 


332       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

6.  Anne  Carter,  no  data. 

7.  Tabitha  Carter,  died  in  Stafford,  Nov.  6,  1759. 

1.  Joseph  Carter  was  probably  the  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Anne  Pines  Carter,  of  "Daleland."  He  lived  in  Stafford  until 
after  the  death  of  his  father,  and  was  married  both  times  in  that 
county.  Joseph  Carter  seems  to  have  owned  land  in  Stafford, 
Prince  William,  and  Lancaster,  for  which  I  could  find  no  deeds 
to  him,  owing  to  the  gaps  in  the  records ;  part  of  it  however,  he 
had  from  his  father  and  probably  other  portions  came  with  his 
wives.  Sept.  25,  1745,  he  had  a  grant  for  400  acres  in  Prince 
William.  Nov.  5,  1748,  Joseph  Carter,  Gent.,  and  wife  Margaret, 
of  Overwharton  parish,  Stafford,  leased  172  acres  of  land  in 
Dittengen  parish,  Prince  William  county,  to  John  Delganie.  On 
the  margin  of  the  record  book  in  Prince  William  is  a  crudely  drawn 
seal  showing  the  head  and  shoulders  of  a  talbot,  which  is  a  Car- 
ter crest. 

The  Overwharton  Register  gives  the  marriages  of  Joseph  Car- 
ter as  follows : 

Joseph  Carter  and  Margaret  Mason  were  married  Nov.  27, 
1746.  Margaret  Mason  Carter  died  March  12,  1752,  one  day 
after  the  birth  of  her  youngest  daughter,  and  on  Feb.  5,  1755, 
Joseph  Carter  was  married  to  Lettice  Lynton.  Oct.  12,  1753, 
John  Peyton  gave  bond  as  the  guardian  of  Lettice  Lynton,  or- 
phan daughter  of  Anthony  Lynton,  Dec'd. 

Mason  Excursus. 

The  destruction  of  so  many  of  the  records  of  Stafford  County  makes  it 
impossible  to  ever  write  a  complete  history  of  the  Mason  family  of  that 
county,  from  which  in  one  line  has  sprung  so  many  distinguished  men. 

I  am  of  the  opinion  that  all  the  Masons  of  Stafford  spring  from  George 
Mason,  who  was  born  in  Staffordshire,  England,  and  appeared  in  Stafford 
County,  Virgnia,  about  1651,  where  he  became  a  large  land  owner,  colonel 
of  militia,  etc.,  and  died  n  1686.  His  descendants  through  his  son  George, 
whose  will  was  probated  in  Stafford,  November  14,  1716,  have  been  traced, 
and  will  be  given  later.  From  the  circumstantial  evidence  of  baptismal 
names  I  believe  Margaret  Mason  Carter's  ancestry  to  have  been  as  follows : 

1st  generation — George  Mason,  the  emigrant,  died  in  Virginia  in  1686. 

2nd  generation Mason,  son  of  the  emigrant. 


Master  Otis  Stribling  Young. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  333 

3rd  generation — George  Mason,  whose  will,  probated  in  Stafford,  May 
11,  171 1,  names  his  wife  Margaret,  sons  George,  William,  Lyman,  and 
daughters  Margaret  and  Mary  Anne.  George  Mason  (presumably  the 
above  George,  Jr.,)  died  in  Stafford,  and  his  will,  probated  September  14, 
1715,  names  wife  Mary  as  his  executor  and  sole  legatee,  and  mentions 
his  sisters,  Margaret  Bennett  and  Anne  French-  This  will  indicates  that 
he  had  no  children. 

4th  generation. — William  Mason.  I  have  no  data  of  him  other  than 
above,  but  I  think  he  very  probably  was  the  father  of  Margaret  Mason 
Carter,  as  her  daughter,  Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh's  descendants  per- 
petuated the  name  of  William  instead  of  Lyman  as  they  would  have  done 
had  she  been  a  daughter  of  the  third  son  of  George  and  Margaret  Mason. 
Margaret  Mason  Carter's  two  daughters  were  named  Margaret  and  Mary 
Anne,  which  I  think  strong  presumptive  evidence  that  she  was  closely  con- 
nected with  the  family  of  George  Mason  who  died  in  171 1.  The  distin- 
guished branch  of  the  Mason  family  have  used  the  name  of  French  as  a 
baptismal  name.  May  it  not  have  come  through  the  marriage  of  Mary 
Anne  Mason,  daughter  of  George  Mason,  who  died  in  171 1.  If  so  it  would 
strengthen  my  contention  that  all  the  Stafford  County  Masons  are  of  the 
same  stock. 

As  there  has  been  two  intermarriages  between  the  Carters  and  the  other, 
or  traced  line  of  Masons,  I  will  give  it  here. 

George  Mason,  of  Staffordshire,  England,  came  to  Virginia  about  1651 
and  settled  in  Stafford  County,  where  he  owned  large  tracts  of  land  and 
died  in  1686.  He  had  a  son  George  Mason,  2nd,  whose  will  was  probated 
in  Stafford,  November  14,  1716.  He  was  a  large  land  owner,  lieut-colonel 
of  the  county  militia,  etc.,  and  had  by  his  first  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Col.  Gerard  Fowke  of  "Gunston  Hall,"  Maryland,  a  son  George  Mason, 
3rd,  born  in  1690,  died  in  Stafford  in  1735.  He  was  married  in  1721  to 
Anne  Thomson  (second  wife),  daughter  of  Stevens  Thomson  of  "Hollin 
Hall,"  Staffordshire,  son  of  Sir  William  Thomson,  Knt.,  Alderman,  etc. 
George  and  Anne  Thomson  Mason  had  issue :  1,  Rosa  Enfield  Mason,  who 
married  first,  John  Dinwiddie,  brother  of  Gov.  Dinwiddie,  and  second,  Col. 
Jeremiah  Bronaugh  (born  Feb.  25,  1703,  died  Nov.  11,  1749),  by  whom 
she  had  a  son  John,  who  married  Mary  Anne  Carter,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Margaret  Mason  Carter.  2,  George  Mason,  4th,  born  1725,  died  1792, 
author  of  the  famous  Virginia  Bill  of  Rights,  one  of  the  chief  members  of 
the  Virginia  Constitutional  Convention  of  1776,  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress  1777,  the  U.  S.  Constitutional  Convention  of  1787,  etc.  He  mar- 
ried 1st,  Anne,  daughter  of  Col.  Wm.  Eilbeck  of  Maryland,  and  2nd,  Sarah 
Brent.  He  had  among  others:  Hon.  John  Mason,  born  1764,  died  1824, 
of  "Analostan"  and  "Clermont,"  who  married  Ann  Maria  Murry,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  James  and  Sarah  Murry  of  Annapolis.     They  had  issue  among 


334 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 


others:  Hon.  James  Murry  Mason,  born  1798,  died  1871.  He  was  a  grad- 
uate of  William  and  Mary  and  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  prac- 
ticed law  at  Winchester,  Va.,  i820-'6i.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia 
Assembly,  Presidential  Elector  in  1833,  member  of  Congress  and  the 
U.  S.  Senate  i847-'6i.  President  Davis  sent  him  as  one  of  the  Confed- 
erate Ministers  to  England,  etc.  He  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Benjamin  Chew,  and  had  among  others  a  son,  Judge  James  M.  Mason  of 
Charlestown,  W.  Va.,  whose  son,  Thomas  M.  Mason,  a  large  lumber  ex- 
porter of  Abingdon,  Va.,  married  Pauline  White,  daughter  of  Dr.  Wm. 
White  of  ^Fruit  Hill,"  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Carter,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Dale  Carter  of  Russell  County.  See  Miss  Rowland's  "Life  of  George 
Mason  of  Gunston  Hall,"  Hayden's  "Virginia  Genealogies,"  and  Miss 
Hardy's  "Colonial  Families  of  the  Southern  States." 

Joseph  Carter  had  issue  as  follows — dates  are  from  the  Over- 
wharton  register : 
By  first  wife : 

8.  Mary  Anne,  born  Dec.  7,  1747,  married  Dr.  John  Bronaugh. 

9.  Margaret,  born  March  11,  1752,  died  Oct.  11,  1754. 
By  second  wife : 

10.  Anthony,  born  Dec.  14,  1755,  no  data. 

11.  Alexander,  born  June  16,  1758,  no  data. 

12.  Joseph,  born  circa  i76o-'65. 

13.  Anne  Pines,  married  Samuel  Haynie  about  1778. 

14.  Sarah  Ellen,  either  she  or  her  sister  Mary  Page  married  a 
Mr.  Chinn. 

15.  Mary  Page. 

Joseph  Carter's  will  dated  July  1,  1769,  was  probated  in  Lan- 
caster, July  18,  1771.  He  gave  wife  Lettice  the  use  of  half  his 
estate ;  daughter  Mary  Anne  Bronaugh  forty  shillings  as  her 
portion  had  already  been  given  her;  son  Anthony  a  tract  of  land 
in  Stafford  and  all  his  land  in  Lancaster ;  son  Joseph  his  watch 
and  gold  ring ;  Robert  Brent,  Esq.,  of  Stafford,  250  acres  in  that 
county ;  residue  of  estate,  equally  to  all  children  except  eldest 
daughter.  Wife,  son  Anthony,  cousin  Dale  Carter,  and  friends 
Thomas  and  Matthew  Myers,  to  be  executors.  His  personal  es- 
tate in  Lancaster  amounted  to  £464  .12s  .3d.,  and  included  14  ne- 
groes, besides  an  excellent  lot  of  furniture,  a  "parcel  of  books," 
etc. :  and  on  his  Prince  William  plantation  to  £379.43.,  and  in- 


GEXEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  335 

eluded  9  negroes.  In  1755,  he  deeded  to  his  daughter  Mary  Anne, 
four  negroes,  probably  servants  that  had  come  to  him  with  he/ 
mother. 

April  24,  1 78 1,  James  Gordon,  Henry  Towles  and  Charles 
Rogers,  allotted  to  "Mr.  Rodham  Lunceford,  who  intermarried 
with  the  widow  of  Mr.  Joseph  Carter,  Dec'd,  her  share  of  his 
estate,"  vizt.  13  negroes,  and  other  personal  property.  They  also 
allotted  to  Samuel  Haynie  who  intermarried  with  Anne  Pines 
Carter  her  share  of  her  father's  estate.  Mrs.  Lettice  Lynton  Car- 
ter married  Rodham  Lunsford,  Feb.  26,  1774,  with  her  brother- 
in-law,  Henry  Carter  as  security.  He  was  probably  a  widower, 
as  in  the  census  of  1782  Rodham  Lunsford  was  the  head  of  a 
family  of  ten  whites  and  thirty  blacks. 

The  Bronaugh  Family. 

Traditionally  the  Bronaughs  of  Virginia  are  descendants  of  "Paul 
Bruneau,  Sieur  de  la  Chabrosiere,  who  was  born  in  La  Rochelle  and  was 
a  grandson  of  Jean  Brunseau,  counselor,  and  eminent  citizen  whose  family 
obtained  patents  of  nobility  in  the  middle  of  the  17th  century.  Paul  Bru- 
neau was  accompanied  in  his  flight  to  America  by  his  nephew  Henri  Bru- 
neau. While  in  England  they  obtained  letters  of  Naturalization  on  March 
20,  1636,  and  changed  the  spelling  of  the  name  to  Bronaugh.  Paul  and 
Henry  Bronaugh  were  instrumental  in  building  the  first  Presbyterian 
Church  in  South  Carolina."  The  family  was  settled  in  the  Rappahannock 
country  in  the  last  years  of  the  seventeenth  century,  where  the  first  known 
ancestor  of  the  family  of  interest  here  was  born. 

Jeremiah  Bronaugh,  born  Feb.  25,  1702,  settled  in  Stafford  County, 
where  he  is  said  to  have  been  a  colonel  of  the  militia,  justice,  vestryman, 
etc.  He  died  here  November  n,  1749.  He  was  a  son  of  a  Jeremiah  Bro- 
naugh who  is  said  to  have  been  settled  in  Stafford  County,  and  nephew  of 
William  Bronaugh  who  died  in  Richmond  County  in  1718.  Col.  Jeremiah 
Bronaugh,  Jr.,  married  a  Mrs.  Rosa  Enfield  Mason  Dinwiddie,  widow  of 
John  Dinwiddie,  brother  of  Governor  Dinwiddie,  and  sister  of  the  states- 
man, George  Mason  of  Gunston  Hall.  She  was  born  in  1703  and  died  at 
Gunston  Hall,  November  22,  1761.  For  an  account  of  their  descendants  see 
JJ'illiain  and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vol.  XVII.  Their  youngest  son,  John  Bro- 
naugh, is  said  to  have  been  a  physician.  He  was  born  January  15,  1743, 
in  Stafford,  and  died  in  the  same  county,  November  24,  1777.  Sometime 
prior  to  July  1,  1769  (date  of  Joseph  Carter's  will),  John  Bronaugh  mar- 
ried Anne  Carter,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  Mason  Carter. 


336       GENEALOGY  Of   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Though  John  Bronaugh's  home  was  in  Stafford,  he  owned  land 
in  Loudoun  and  Fauquier,  where  his  will  was  probated,  May  25, 
1778.  It  names  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  but  some  of  the 
descendants  say  there  was  a  third  daughter,  Anne  Bronaugh,  born 
after  the  death  of  her  father.  Mrs.  Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh 
died  at  the  home  of  her  son  William  Bronaugh  on  the  Gt.  Kanawha 
River,  in  Mason  county  about  i820-'25. 

In  the  census  of  1785,  Mrs.  Mary  Anne  Bronaugh,  of  Stafford 
county,  was  given  as  the  head  of  a  family  of  eight  white  persons. 
This  census  did  not  enumerate  the  servants  as  did  the  previous 
ones.  There  is  some  controversy  among  the  descendants  of  Dr. 
John  and  Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh  as  to  the  number  of  their 
children,  but  they  seem  to  have  had  six,  one  of  whom  was  born 
after  Dr.  Bronaugh's  death,  and  another  died  quite  young.  They 
were: 

16.  Margaret  Bronaugh,  born  in  i767-'68,  died  after  1800. 

17.  Mary  Mason  Bronaugh,  born  Nov.  19,  1770,  died  Oct.  2, 
1831. 

18.  John  Bronaugh,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  born  about  1772,  died  after  1825. 

19.  William  Bronaugh,  born  about  1774,  died  in  1859. 

20.  Martin  Bronaugh,  born  about  1776,  died  young. 

21.  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh,  born  in  1778,  died  after  1800. 

Carters  of  "Daleland"' — Beale  Branch. 

16.  Margaret  Bronaugh,  eldest  daughter,  was  named  for  her 
grandmother,  Margaret  Mason,  wife  of  Joseph  Carter.  When 
quite  young  she  was  married  to  Richard  Eustace  Beale,  of  Rich- 
mond county.  There  is  a  decided  difference  of  opinion  among  the 
descendants  of  Dr.  and  Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh  as  to  this 
marriage.  Mrs.  C.  A.  Renaker,  Cynthiana,  Ky.,  says  that  her 
father,  Dr.  A.  J.  Beale,  always  called  Mr.  Robert  Hereford,  of 
Mason  county,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Mason  Bronaugh,  uncle  and 
aunt  and  said  that  Mrs.  Hereford  was  a  sister  of  his  grandmother 
Beale.  Miss  Cora  Bronaugh,  of  St.  Louis,  a  grand-daughter  of 
William,  the  second  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Anne  Carter 
Bronaugh,  says  very  positively  that  Margaret  Bronaugh  did  not 
marry  Richard  Beale,  but  was  the  second  wife  of  Joseph  Hale. 


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Judge  Thomas  Harvey,  Huntington,  West  Va.,  a  grandson  of 
Joseph  Hale,  has  the  old  Hale  Bible,  and  says  that  his  grand- 
father's second  wife  was  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Carter  Bronaugh,  and  a  first  cousin  of 
the  first  wife  who  was  Margaret  Bronaugh,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Margaret  Murdock  Bronaugh.  The  evidence  seeming  to 
be  in  favor  of  the  Bronaugh-Beale  marriage,  I  have  so  consid- 
ered it. 

Beale  Excursus. 

Richard  Eustace  Beale  was  the  son  of  John  Beale  of  Richmond  County, 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Eustace,  daughter  of  Wm.  Eustace  of  Wicomico 
Parish,  Northumberland  County,  and  his  wife  Ann  Lee,  daughter  of  Han- 
cock Lee.  John  Beale's  will  was  probated  in  Richmond  County,  August 
3,  1767,  and  names  wife  Elizabeth  Eustace  and  children,  Anne,  Sarah, 
Winifred,  Elizabeth,  Charlotte,  and  only  son  Richard  Eustace.  He  was  a 
son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Fitzhugh  Beale,  and  a  grandson  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  Tavernor  Beale. 

Elizabeth  Tavernor,  born  March  25,  1681,  died  March  29,  1729,  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Cole  Tavernor  of  Richmond  County. 
Thomas  Beale  was  the  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  Beale  (2nd),  born  in  1648, 
died  Oct.  16,  1679,  at  his  home  "Chestnut  Hill,"  Richmond  County,  where 
his  tomb  is  yet  to  be  seen  showing  the  Beale  arms.  These  are  the  same 
as  those  of  the  Beale  family  of  London,  which  are :  "Sa-  on  a  chevron 
between  three  griffin  heads  erased  ar.  three  estoiles  gu.  Crest, — a  uni- 
corn's head  erased  or.  semee  d'estoiles  gu." 

Capt.  Thomas  Beale  of  "Chestnut  Hill"  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and 
Alice  Beale,  who  came  to  York  County,  Va.,  prior  to  Oct.  26,  1646,  and 
settled  on  a  plantation  called  "Mulberry  Bend,"  where  they  are  buried ; 
and  was  married  Feb.  2j,  1672,  in  York  County,  to  Anne,  the  daughter  of 
Capt.  Wm.  Gooch,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1626,  and  died  Oct.  25, 
1655,  and  is  buried  in  the  old  York  Church,  whose  ruins  are  near  the  old 
Moore  house  where  Lord  Cornwallis  surrendered.  Capt.  Gooch  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1652  and  1654,  and  of  the  Council 
in  1655. 

Thomas  Beale,  Sr.,  the  emigrant,  was  a  member  of  the  Council  in 
1662,  and  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  York  Militia. 

Richard  Eustace  Beale  and  Margaret  Bronaugh  had  a  son, 
Richard  Tavernor  Beale,  who  married  first  Hannah  Wilson, 
daughter  of  John  Wilson,  who  was  born  in  Aug.,  1749,  and  died, 
Aug.  31,  1823,  and  is  buried  on  the  old  Beale  farm  in  Mason 


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county.  The  slab  over  his  grave  bears  the  following  inscription : 
"Here  lies  the  body  of  John  Wilson,  who  was  an  officer  in  the 
Revolution,  a  peaceable  Citizen,  and  an  honest  man,  who  died 
Aug.  31 — 1823,  in  74  year  of  his  age." 

Richard  T.  Beale  married,  second,  Margaret,  daughter  of  James 
H.  and  Elizabeth  James  Seaton. 

He  had  issue  by  first  marriage : 

22.  John  Beale,  died  in  1867. 

27,.  Anne  Maria  Beale,  died  in  1850,  unmarried. 

24.  William  Beale,  born  in  1820,  died  in  Nov.,  1872. 

25.  David  Beale,  died  in  1847. 

26.  Richard  Eustace  Beale,  died  in  1873. 

27.  James  Monroe  Beale,  born  in  1829,  died  in  1903. 
Issue  by  second  marriage  : 

28.  Andrew  Jackson  Beale,  born  Nov.  19,  1831,  died  Jan.  4, 
1909. 

29.  Sarah  Beale,  married  Jesse  Bassett. 

24.  William  Beale,  of  Mercer's  Bottom,  Mason  county,  Va., 
was  married  Dec.  29,  1852,  to  Lavinia  Moore,  born,  1834 — still 
living.  They  had  issue:  Wm.  Clinton  Beale,  now  dead;  Mrs. 
Margaret  Franklin,  of  New  Orleans ;  Charles  Moore  Beale,  liv- 
ing now  in  Oklahoma ;  Mrs.  F.  B.  Reynolds,  of  New  Orleans ; 
John  M.  Beale,  a  prominent  merchant  and  business  man  of  Guyan- 
dotte,  West  Va.,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Dr.  A.  B. 
and  Elizabeth  Thornburg  McGuinnis  ;  Robert  Wilson  Beale,  dead  ; 
and  Ella  Augusta  Beale,  dead. 

26.  Richard  Eustace  Beale,  married  Mary  Ellen  Moore,  and 
had  a  daughter,  Atlanta,  who  married  a  Mr.  Gibbs  and  died  in 
1887,  and  a  son  George  Beale,  living  now  at  Paducah,  Ky. 

27.  James  M.  Beale,  married  Jane  Wiley,  and  died  at  Arcala. 
111.,  in  1903,  leaving  a  son  and  daughter. 

28.  Andrew  J.  Beale,  M.  D.,  served  during  the  war  in  the  Con- 
federate army,  and  after  the  war  for  nearly  half  a  century,  at- 
tended to  a  large  practice  in  and  near  Cynthiana,  Ky.  July  12, 
1856,  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Elliott,  nee  Tucker.  They 
have  three  daughters  living :  Mrs.  C.  A.  Reniker,  Cynthiana,  Ky., 
Mrs.  Lalla  Gray,  wife  of  Dr.  Gray,  of  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  and 


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Mary  Beale,  who  is  married  and  living  at  Paul's  Valley,  Okla- 
homa, but  the  name  of  her  husband  was  not  furnished  me  by  any 
of  my  correspondents. 

Carters  of  "Daleland" — Hereford  Branch. 

17.  Mary  Mason  Bronaugh,  second  daughter  of  Dr.  John  and 
Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh,  of  Stafford  county,  was  married 
Dec.  7,  1790,  to  Robert  Hereford,  born  in  Loudoun  county,  Oct. 
8,  1769,  died  in  Mason  county  in  Jan.  1853. 

Hereford  Excursus. 

Robert  Hereford  was  the  son  of  John  Hereford,  born  in  1725,  died  in 
Fairfax  County,  Va.,  in  1794,  and  his  wife  Margaret  Ammon,  and  grand- 
son of  John  Herriford,  who  came  to  Fairfax  County  from  Hertfordshire, 
England.  John,  Sr.'s  will  was  probated  in  Fairfax  in  1747,  and  John,  Jr.'s 
in  1794,  and  names  his  children  as  follows:  John  (3),  Wm.,  Thos.,  Francis, 
Robert,  Ann,  Peggy,  Kitty,  and  Elizabeth. 

Robert  Hereford  and  his  wife  continued  to  live  in  Loudoun 
after  their  marriage  until  1807,  when  they  removed  to  a  thou- 
sand acre  farm  that  Mr.  Hereford  had  purchased  in  1805  from 
the  lower  end  of  the  Mercer  grant  on  the  Ohio  River,  in  Mason 
county.  Here  they  lived  in  a  hewn  log  house  until  181 1,  when 
Mr.  Hereford's  negro  servants  and  a  bricklayer  imported  from 
east  of  the  mountains  completed  a  two-story  brick  house,  in  which 
his  great  grandchildren  are  now  living.  This  house  is  the  oldest 
one  now  standing  in  the  county,  and  is  said  to  have  been  the  first 
one  completed  of  brick  in  Mason  county,  though  it  is  claimed 
on  the  authority  of  old  residents,  that  the  brick  house  of  John 
Miller,  a  neighbor  of  the  Herefords,  was  completed  a  year  earlier, 
on  the  farm  known  as  Ehvell,  now  owned  by  the  Moores.  Also 
in  181 1  another  two-story  brick  house  was  built  for  Samuel  Hen- 
derson on  the  Henderson  grant,  south  of  Kanawha  at  Point 
Pleasant,  now  owned  by  his  great  grandson. 

In  writing  of  this  old  home  the  late  Miss  Ellen  Neale,  of  "Ben 
Lomand,"  Mason  county,  to  whose  persistent  efforts  and  kind- 
ness I  am  indebted  for  most  of  the  interesting  data  that  has  been 
gathered  of  the  descendants  of  Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh, 
Miss  Neale  savs : 


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"The  old  house  of  nearly  a  century  past  (she  was  writing  in 
1905),  though  some  changes  have  been  necessary,  is  unique  in 
one  particular — it  has  been  lived  in  by  six  generations  and  is 
still  unfinished — walls  not  plastered  and  rough  and  pioneer  like 
in  many  ways.  The  rooms  were  ceiled  with  walnut  plank,  and  in 
one  never  whitewashed,  shows  plainly  bare  foot  prints  of  many 
sizes.  While  the  lumber  was  piled  in  the  yard  it  must  have  been 
played  over  by  children  whose  feet  were  wet  with  dew  and  stains 
of  weeds.  Mrs.  Hereford's  mother  (Mrs.  Mary  Anne  Carter 
Bronaugh),  in  the  latter  years  of  her  life,  would  stay  six  months 
with  this  daughter,  and  then  made  comfortable  in  a  pirogue,  with 
feather  bed,  pillows,  etc.,  would  be  rowed  by  servants  up  the  Ohio 
and  Kanawha  Rivers  to  Buffalo,  where  her  son  William  was 
living.  This  was  repeated  each  year  until  her  death,  about  1820- 
1825.  In  the  yard  is  an  old-fashioned  white  rose  bush,  set  out 
in  1810 — some  of  the  largest  locust  trees  in  all  the  country  round — 
a  beautiful  walnut  tree  planted  by  one  of  the  daughters  in  1818. 
In  the  house  are  many  relics — a  tall  hall  clock  and  solid  mahogany 
tables  from  England — a  cherry  bedstead  with  high  posts  beau- 
tifully carved  in  pine  apple  design — a  wine  buffet  from  Scot- 
land, old  silver,  etc.,  from  old  Virginia.  The  garret  is  a  store- 
house of  old  papers  of  the  family  and  those  connected  by  mar- 
riage. Many  were  destroyed  by  mice,  but  others  remain,  some 
dating  back  to  1764. 

"Mr.  Robert  Hereford  was  a  man  of  piety — true  and  sincere 
in  his  convictions  of  right  and  duty — a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  but  not  bigoted.  On  one  occasion,  when  present  at  a 
communion  service  in  a  Baptist  church,  he  advanced  to  the  table, 
but  was  met  by  the  preacher  with :  "Hold  on,  Brother  Hereford, 
this  is  our  table."  Mr.  Hereford  stepped  back,  replying,  "I  beg 
pardon,  I  thought  it  was  the  Lord's." 

"Feeling  the  need  of  a  house  of  worship  in  this  frontier  wilder- 
ness, he  built  a  church  on  his  farm,  and  in  the  churchyard  sur- 
rounding it,  he,  his  wife  and  Virginia  Lewis  Hereford  (daughter 
of  Howell  Lewis  and  granddaughter  of  Betty  Washington  Lewis 
of  Kenmore),  and  other  members  of  his  family  are  buried.    Not 


'Rural  Retreat."  Mason  County,   iSic. 
(Built    by    Robert    Hereford). 


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a  vestige  of  the  building  remains — only  a  grove  of  trees  and  a  few 
tombstones." 

Robert  and  Mary  Mason  Bronaugh  Hereford  had  issue : 

31.  William  Ansley  Hereford,  born  Aug.  27,  1791,  died  in 
Texas  in  Sept.,  1839. 

32.  John  Bronaugh  Hereford,  born  June  11,  1794- 

33.  Robert  Amnion  Hereford,  born  Feb.  18,  1796. 

34.  Anna  Maria  Hereford,  born  in  Feb.,  1798. 

35.  Elizabeth  Page  Hereford,  born  Jan.  29,  1800,  died  in  1872. 

36.  Thomas  Ammon  Hereford,  born  March  18,  1802. 

37.  Margaret  Mason  Hereford,  born  March  10,  1805,  died 
July  19,  1888. 

38.  Mary  Anne  Hereford,  born  Jan.  21,  1807,  died  Nov.  27, 
1886. 

39.  Catharine  Ellen  Hereford,  born  Jan.  29,  1810. 

40.  Francis  Marion  Hereford,  born  Jan.  25,  1814. 

The  first  six  children  were  born  in  Loudoun  county,  the  next 
two  in  Fauquier,  and  the  last  two  in  Mason. 

31.  William  Ansley  Hereford,  married  Emily  Chinn,  of  Fau- 
quier (related  to  the  Ashbeys  of  that  county),  and  had  issue: 

41.  Dr.  John  Robert  Hereford,  of  St.  Louis,  who  married  Mary 
Couszins,  of  a  fine  old  French  family  of  that  city. 

42.  Eliza  Hereford,  married  Dr.  Allen  Sebrell,  of  Mason  county. 

43.  Mary  Catharine  Hereford,  married  her  cousin,  Dr.  John 
Hereford  Beale. 

44.  Andrew  Chinn  Hereford,  was  a  major  in  the  Confederate 
army. 

45.  Thomas  Hereford. 

46.  Emily  Hereford,  married  a  Mr.  Brand  and  lived  in  Galena, 
111. 

32.  John  Bronaugh  Hereford,  removed  to  Louisiana,  where 
he  was  married  in  West  Felisiana  parish  to  Catharine  Mary  Stir- 
ling, born  in  1786,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Mary  Turnbull  Stir- 
ling. Her  father  was  United  States  quartermaster  in  the  War  of 
1812  at  New  Orleans,  and  was  a  son  of  Alexander  Stirling  who 


342  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

emigrated  from  Scotland  to  Point  Coupee  parish,  La.    John  and 
Catharine  Sterling  Hereford  had  issue : 

47.  Dr.  Francis  Robert  Hereford,  married  Julia  Lecoque. 

48.  Sarah  Turnbull  Hereford. 

49.  Lewis  Stirling  Hereford,  married  Elizabeth  R.  Percy. 

50.  Anne  Matilda  Hereford,  married  Clarence  Percey. 

51.  John  Bronaugh  Hereford,  Jr.,  married  Elizabeth  J.  Rob- 
ertson. 

52.  James  Stirling  Hereford,  married,  first,  Adeline  Harris; 
second,  Jennie  Chichester ;  third,  Mary  Brewer. 

53.  Catharine  Mary  Hereford,  married  Anthony  Doherty. 

54.  Isabella  Semple  Hereford,  married,  first,  Demarct  Haw- 
kins ;  second,  Rev.  G.  R.  Upton. 

33.  Robert  Ammon  Hereford,  married  Virginia  Lewis,  daugh- 
ter of  Howell  Lewis  and  his  wife,  Ellen  Hackley  Pollard,  and 
grand-niece  of  General  Washington. 

Lewis  Excursus. 

Howell  Lewis,  born  Dec.  12,  1771,  was  the  youngest  son  of  Col.  Field- 
ing Lewis  of  "Kenmore,"  near  Fredericksburg,  and  his  wife  Betty  Wash- 
ington, only  sister  of  General  Washington.  Col.  Lewis,  born  July  7,  1725, 
died  in  1781,  was  a  wealthy  and  prominent  man  in  Virginia  about  the  time 
of  the  Revolution,  and  gave  large  sums  of  money  toward  the  manufacture 
of  cannon  and  small  arms  for  the  Continental  troops.  He  was  a  son  of 
Col-  Lewis  of  "Warner  Hall,"  Gloucester,  who  married  about  1719  Fran- 
ces Fielding,  only  daughter  of  Henry  Fielding  of  King  and  Queen  County. 
Col.  John  Lewis  was  commissioned  a  colonel  in  Gloucester  militia  in 
1734,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Council  in  I748-'5I.  He  was  born  March 
22,  1692,  and  died  in  1754,  and  was  a  son  of  Col.  John  Lewis,  Sr.,  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  in  1715,  born  Nov.  30,  1669,  died  Nov.  14,  1725,  and 
his  wife  Eliabeth  Warner,  born  Nov.  24,  1672,  died  Feb.  5,  1720,  daughter 
of  Col.  Augustine  Warner  of  "Chesake"  and  "Warner  Hall,"  the  latter 
was  at  one  time  one  of  the  largest  and  handsomest  homes  in  colonial 
Virginia. 

Howell  Lewis  died  in  1823  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate  in  Mason 
County  shows  that  he  owned  27  servants  in  that  county. 

Robert  and  Virginia  Lewis  Hereford  are  buried  at  the  old 
Hereford  place  in  Mason  county.     They  had  issue: 


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55.  Robert  Lewis  Hereford,  who  was  quite  a  "Beau  Brummer' 
in  his  dress  and  appearance.  He  removed  to  the  West  and  lived 
among  the  Indians,  and  paradoxical  as  it  may  seem,  he  married 
a  halfbreed  French  and  Indian  squaw.  He  is  said  to  have  acted 
as  an  interpreter  for  General  Custer  in  his  Indian  campaigns. 

56.  Brooke  Gwathmey  Hereford,  born  Dec.  31,  1831,  died  in 
April,  1899,  married  Miriam  Hannan  and  removed  to  Ohio. 

56.  Frances  Hereford,  married  John  Hall,  of  Mason  county, 
and  lived  at  a  handsome  old  place  on  the  Ohio  above  Point 
Pleasant. 

57.  Kate  Bronaugh  Hereford,  married  a  Mr.  Shroeder. 

58.  Betty  Washington  Hereford. 

59.  Lawrence  Berry  Hereford. 

34.  Anna  Maria  Hereford,  born  in  1798,  married  Maj.  John 
W.  Beale,  of  Botetourt  county,  and  died  in  St.  Louis.  He  was  a 
son  of  John  Beale  and  his  wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Colonel 
George  Skillern  of  the  Revolution. 

Beale  Excursus. 

John  Beale,  father  of  John  W.  Beale,  was  a  son  of  Tavernor  Beale,  Jr., 
and  his  wife  Elizetbeth  Hite,  daughter  of  Jacob  Hite  by  his  first  wife 
Catharine  O'Bannon  of  Dublin,  Ireland.  Tavernor  Beale,  Jr.,  was  the 
4th  child  of  Tavernor  Beale,  Sr.,  and  his  wife  Frances  Madison,  daughter 
of  Ambrose  and  Frances  Taylor  Madison.  Frances  Madison  Beale  mar- 
ried secondly  the  Jacob  Hite  mentioned  above  and  removed  to  South 
Carolina,  where  she,  with  her  husband  and  younger  children,  were  mur- 
dered by  the  Indians. 

Tavernor  Beale,  Sr.,  was  the  third  son  of  Thomas  Beale  of  Richmond 
County,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Tavernor.  See  Beale  notes  elsewhere  in 
this  section. 

John  W.  Beale  and  Anna  Maria  Hereford  had  issue : 

60.  Dr.  John  Hereford  Beale,  living  in  San  Diego,  Cal.,  in 
1909.  He  married  his  cousin,  Mary  Catharine  Hereford,  and  had 
at  least  one  daughter,  Miss  Emma  Beale,  of  San  Diego. 

61.  Mary  Margaret  Beale,  died  in  1900,  married  Philip  Wm. 
Hale,  son  of  William  Payne  Hale  and  his  wife,  Eleanor  Harn- 


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son.  They  had  issue:  Wm.  Beale  Hale,  Howard  Hale,  Rober: 
Hale,  Channing  Hale,  Anne  Hale,  of  whom  later;  Julia  Hale, 

married  Captain Ambrose ;  George  Robert  Hale, 

married  Anne  Dunn,  and  lived  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  where  he 
became  a  judge  on  the  Louisiana  bench  ;  Charles  Hale  and  Thomas 
Hale.  Anne  Beale  Hale,  married,  first,  Theodore  Wendall,  born 
in  April,  1837,  in  Albany,  New  York,  by  whom  she  had  issue 
two  daughters — Eva  M.  Wendall,  married  Dr.  William  L.  Barnes, 
and  Margaret  Romaine  Wendall,  unmarried.  Mrs.  Anne  Beale 
Wendall  married,  second,  in  1890,  Charles  Rollins  Miller,  born 
in  Cayuga  county,  New  York,  in  1834,  and  died  in  Adrian,  Mich., 
Oct.  13,  1908.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  L.  Barnes  have  one  daughter, 
Dorothy  Barnes,  who  in  May,  1910,  unveiled  at  Ionia,  Mich,  a 
tablet  erected  by  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution  to  the  memory 
of  Dexter  colony,  who  were  the  original  settlers  in  that  city ;  her 
father  being  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Wm.  B.  Lincoln  and  Oliver  Arnold, 
members  of  the  colony  in  1833. 

35.  Elizabeth  Page  Hereford,  named  for  her  father's  favorite 
sister,  Elizabeth  Hereford,  who  married  Gawin  Page,  born  about 
1758,  son  of  Mann  Page,  of  "Rosewell,"  and  his  second  wife, 
Anne  Corbin  Tayloe,  of  "Mt.  Airy,'  inherited  the  old  Hereford 
place  in  Mason  county.  She  was  married  in  1828  to  Dr.  Mathew 
Wright  Stribling,  born  at  Berry ville,  Va.,  in  1796,  died  in  Fau- 
quier county  in  1845.  He  was  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Betsey 
Snickers  Stribling,  of  Clarke  county,  Va.,  and  grandson  of  Talia- 
ferro and  Elizabeth  Wright  Stribling.  Dr.  Stribling  received  a 
fine  classical  education  in  Virginia  and  his  medical  education  at 
the  Philadelphia  Medical  College.  In  18 17  he  settled  at  Red 
House  Shoals,  on  the  Great  Kanawha,  to  which  place  his  father 
and  brother  had  previously  removed.  In  1828  he  was  elected  to 
the  Virginia  Assembly,  and  taking  his  bride  they  rode  through 
to  Fauquier  on  horseback,  where  she  remained  with  relatives 
while  he  went  on  to  Richmond.  Two  years  later  they  returned  to 
the  Kanawha  Valley  and  settled  in  Charleston,  and  in  1835  removed 
to  Point  Pleasant.  His  health  failing  in  1845,  tney  traveled  again 
across  the  mountains,  hoping  the  change  would  be  beneficial,  but 
he  died  and  was  buried  in  Fauquier  county.     It  was  said  of  Dr. 


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Stribling:  "No  one  ever  possessed  a  higher  sense  of  honor,  no 
one  ever  had  warmer  feelings  of  friendship,  or  was  more  free 
from  vindictive  feelings — no  more  ardently  affectionate  son,  hus- 
band or  father." 

Dr.  Mathew  W.  and  Elizabeth  Page  Hereford  Stribling  had 
issue : 

62.  Mary  Caroline  Stribling,  born  in  1829  in  Fauquier,  mar- 
ried in  1858,  a  cousin,  Junius  Temple  Hereford,  of  Charleston. 
and  died  at  Atchinson,  Kan.,  in  1872.  Their  only  child,  Fred- 
erick Stribling  Hereford,  died  at  Mercers  Bottom,  West  Va.,  in 
1880. 

63.  Robert  Mackey  Stribling,  M.  D.,  was  educated  at 
Drewen  College,  Ky.,  and  at  the  Cincinnati  Medical  College.  He 
was  a  surgeon  in  the  Confederate  army,  and  after  the  war  settled 
at  Florrisant,  St.  Louis  county,  Mo.,  where  he  died  unmarried 
in  1! 


64.  Otis  Francis  Stribling,  born  in  1836,  the  present  owner 
of  the  old  Hereford  home  in  Mercers  Bottom,  was  educated  at 
Gallia  Academy,  and  in  the  law  department  of  Washington  and 
Lee  University  at  Lexington,  Va.  In  1869  he  was  married  to 
Virginia  Caroline  Neale,  daughter  of  William  Presley  Lewis 
Neale,  of  "Ben  Lomond,"  Mason  county,  and  his  wife,  Catharine 
Beale  Steenbergen,  daughter  of  General  Peter  H.  Steenbergen. 

Neale  Excursus. 

William  Presley  Lewis  Neale  was  the  youngest  son  of  William 
Presley  Neale,  who  died  in  Fauquier  County,  Va.,  in  1808,  at  the 
age  of  twe.ity-seven,  who  at  the  age  of  nineteen  ran  away  with 
and  married  his  stepsister  Nancy  Maria  Smith,  who  was  but  six- 
teen years  old.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Lewis  Smith  and  his  wife 
Mary  Nelson  and  granddaughter  of  John  Smith  and  his  wife  Eliza 
Marshall,  daughter  of  John  Marshall  of  "The  Forest."  Wm.  Presley 
Neale  was  a  son  of  Richard  Neale  and  his  first  wife  Frances  Underwood, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Underwood  of  King  George  County,  and 
was  born  in  1781,  and  married  to  Nancy  Smith  in  1801.  Richard  Neale, 
born  1734,  married  prior  to  July,  1767,  was  the  youngest  son  of  Presley 
and  Margaret  Neale  of  Westmoreland  County.     Presley  Neale  was  at  one 


346  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

time  a  "sub-sheriff"  of  that  county,  and  died  in  1749  in  Fairfax,  leaving 
a  good  estate.  He  was  a  son  of  Daniel  Neale,  who  died  in  Westmoreland 
in  1713,  and  his  wife  Ursula  Presley,  daughter  of  Cil.  Wm.  Presley,  and 
sister  of  Capt.  Peter  Presley  of  "Northumberland  House,"  Northumber- 
land County.  Daniel  Neale  was  a  son  of  Christopher  Neale  (born  in  1644, 
died  in  1691)  of  Northumberland  County,  and  his  wife  Hannah  Rodham, 
daughter  of  Matthew  and  Eliabeth  Rodham.  Christopher  Neale  was  a 
son  of  Lieut.  Daniel  and  Ellen  Neale,  who  emigrated  to  Northumberland 
County  prior  to  1659. 

Otis  F.  and  Virginia  Caroline  Stribling  had  issue : 
Matthew  Weightman,  born  in  1871,  married  in  1897  Mary  M. 
Hunter,  daughter  of  Jefferson  and  Mahala  Carroll  Hunter  ;  Catha- 
rine Beale  Stribling,  born  in  1873,  married  in  1899  James  A. 
Young,  of  Louisville,  a  son  of  Norborne  and  Sarah  Harper  Young, 
of  Magnolia,  Ark.,  and  have  one  son,  Otis  Stribling  Young; 
Elizabeth  V.  C.  Stribling,  born  in  1875,  died  in  1902,  and  William 
Neale,  born  in  1877. 

36.  Thomas  Ammon  Hereford,  born  in  1802,  married  Mary 
Cumberland  Wilson,  born  in  1806,  died  in  1835,  daughter  of 
James  and  Mary  Prentice  Wilson,  and  granddaughter  of  Cumber- 
land and  Janet  Allen  Wilson,  of  Glasgow,  Scotland.  Thomas  A. 
Hereford  was  the  first  postmaster  below  the  Kanawha  River  in 
Mason  county,  which  office  bore  his  surname.     They  had  issue : 

65.  Dr.  James  Wilson  Hereford,  married  Elizabeth  Hayman. 

66.  Robert  Prentice  Hereford,  married,  first,  Morena  Marilla 
Gowdy  at  Wheeling,  Va.,  and  second,  a  Miss  Hereford,  in  Fresno 
county,  Cal. 

67.  Junius  Temple  Hereford,  born  in  1830,  at  Charleston,  Va., 
married  his  cousin,  Mary  Caroline  Stribling. 

37.  Margaret  Mason  Hereford,  born  in  1805,  married  Alonzo 
Cushing,  an  attorney,  born  at  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  but  a  resident  of 
Gallipolis,  Ohio.  They  had  no  children.  A  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Cushing  is  at  her  old  home  in  Mercers  Bottom. 

38.  Mary  Anne  Hereford,  born  in  1807,  married  Captain 
Dempsey  Cain,  a  wealthy  planter  in  Mississippi,  where  they  lived 
until  the  war.  Captain  Dempsey  took  his  servants  to  Texas  for 
safe  keeping  when  the  Federals  got  control  of  the  Mississippi 


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River,  and  on  the  road  home  was  robbed  and  murdered.  His 
wife  sought  refuge  with  one  of  her  brothers  in  Alabama,  until 
after  the  war,  when  the  plantation  was  sold  at  a  great  sacrifice, 
and  she  came  to  Gallipolis  to  live  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  Cushing. 
She  left  no  issue. 

39.  Catharine  Ellen  Hereford,  born  in  18 10,  married  Dr. 
Daniel  Couch,  a  prominent  pioneer  physician  of  Mason  county, 
who  was  born  in  Hanover  county,  Dec.  13,  1813,  and  died  in 
Mason  county  at  an  advanced  age. 

Couch  Excursus. 

Dr.  Daniel  Couch  was  a  son  of  Daniel  Couch,  Sr.,  born  in  Williams- 
burg, Va.,  April  19,  1787,  died  at  his  home  "Long  Meadow,"  Mason  County. 
Dec.  5,  1824,  and  his  wife  Sarah  Richardson,  born  in  Hanover  County, 
June  21,  1782,  died  at  "Long  Meadow"  Nov.  16,  1852.  They  were  married 
in  Hanover,  Jan.  29,  1807.  Daniel  Couch  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Couch, 
born  Sept.  16,  1752,  married  in  the  old  Swedes  Church,  Philadelphia,  on 
Jan.  3,  1776,  to  Anne  Quigg,  born  at  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  Oct.  5,  1754. 
It  is  said  that  Samuel  Couch  owned  at  one  time  most  of  the  land  upon 
which  West  Philadelphia  is  built,  but  selling  it  in  1777,  he  removed  to 
Virginia,  where  he  purchased  large  tracts  of  land  in  Goochland,  compris- 
ing the  "Little  Creek"  and  other  farms,  and  a  good  many  slaves,  but 
later  he  became  a  strict  Quaker  and  manumitted  all  of  his  servants.  He 
had  issue :  Rebecca  Webb,  who  married  Anthony  Robinson,  seventh  in 
descent  from  John  Robinson  of  York  County,  who  died  in  1688,  and  had 
a  large  family.  2nd,  Daniel  Couch,  married  Sarah  Richardson  and  re- 
moved to  the  Kanawha  Valley.  3rd,  Anne  Wolasten,  born  in  1786,  mar- 
ried, Aug.  6,  1803,  Christopher  Anthony,  a  prominent  attorney  of  Lynch- 
burg. 4th,  Deborah,  who  was  in  the  famous  Richmond  Theatre  fire,  and 
escaped  with  her  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Robinson,  by  jumping  from  an  upper 
widow. — Hayden's   Virginia  Genealogies. 

Dr.  Daniel  Couch  read  medicine  with  Dr.  Shaw  at  Point 
Pleasant,  and  later  took  a  course  of  lectures  at  Transylvania 
University,  Ky.,  before  he  settled  down  to  practice  in  Mason. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Couch  had  issue : 

68.  Mary  Couch,  died  unmarried. 

69.  Edward  Couch,  removed  to  Atchison,  Kan.,  where  he  mar- 
ried Parmee  Abell,  and  had  issue :  Hallie,  married  a  Mr.  Ingra- 
ham  and  removed  to  Texas,  and  a  son,  Harry. 


348  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

jo.  Margaret  Couch,  married  James  Loper,  of  Atchison,  Kan., 
and  left  one  daughter. 

40.  Francis  Marion  Hereford,  born  in  1814,  married  Har- 
riet Fort,  daughter  of  John  F.  Fort,  of  Louisiana,  and  his  wife, 
Ann  Gibson,  of  North  Carolina.  An  old  portrait  of  Francis 
Hereford  still  hangs  on  the  wall  of  the  home  where  he  was 
born.     He  had  issue: 

71.  Mary  Bronaugh  Hereford,  married  Stephen  Ormsbey  Rhea. 

J2.  Francis  M.  Hereford,  Jr.,  married  Lavinia  McCartle,  of 
Louisiana. 

J2,.  Anne  Hereford,  died  young. 

74.  Harriet  Elizabeth. 

75.  Robert  Hereford. 

76.  Alice  Hereford,  married  John  B.  Farley  and  lives  at  An- 
niston,  Ala. 

yy.  Adele  Catharine,  married  Robert  West  McMain,  of  Louis- 
iana. 

78.  Virginia  Hereford. 

79.  William  Fort  Hereford. 

18.  John  Bronaugh,  M.  D.,  born  in  Stafford  in  1772,  eldest 
son  of  Dr.  John  and  Mary  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh,  lived  in  Prince 
William  and  Fauquier  counties,  where  he  had  a  good  practice. 
He  married,  first,  his  cousin,  Rosa  Bronaugh,  born  March  11, 
1777,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Cooke  Bronaugh.  By  this 
marriage  there  was  a  daughter  Emily,  who  married  John 
Tyler,  of  "Hickory  Grove,"  Prince  William  county,  Dr.  Bronaugh 
married,  second,  a  Miss  Graham.  No  other  data  of  this  branch 
of  the  family. 

The  Kanawha  Valley  Bronaughs. 

19.  William  Bronaugh,  born  in  1774  in  Stafford  county,  Va., 
died  in  1859,  in  Cooper  county,  Missouri.  He  was  a  captain  of 
militia  in  the  Kanawha  Valley  during  the  War  of  1812,  though 
saw  no  actual  service.  He  removed  in  1805  to  a  large  tract  of 
land  he  owned  in  the  Great  Kanawha  Valley  near  the  present 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  349 

town  of  Buffalo,  Putnam  county,  then  in  Mason  county,  which 
is  still  owned  by  his  descendants.  Mason  county  was  named  for 
George  Mason'  of  "Gunston  Hall,"  a  brother  of  William  Bron- 
augh's  grandmother,  Simpha  Rosa  Mason  Bronaugh.  This  county 
with  a  long  frontage  along  the  Ohio  and  divided  by  the  Great 
Kanawha  and  with  an  average  elevation  of  less  than  six  hundred 
feet  above  sea  level,  had  most  of  its  choice  lands  in  the  Ohio 
and  Kanawha  Valleys  granted  to  General  Washington,  General 
Andrew  Lewis,  General  Hugh  Mercer,  Major  Peter  Hogg,  Cap- 
tain John  Henderson,  Major  Andrew  Wagoner,  and  a  few  other 
more  or  less  prominent  Virginians.  From  1790  to  1825  these 
grants  were  divided  into  farms  of  from  three  hundred  to  a 
thousand  acres  each  and  in  most  instances  settled  on  by  the  rela- 
tives or  friends  of  the  original  grantees,  so  that  today  is  to  be 
found  in  Mason  county  the  blood  and  names  of  Washington,  Ball, 
Hogg,  Lewis,  Thornton,  Henderson,  Waggoner,  Beale,  Neale, 
Miller,  Clendenin,  Bronaugh,  Hereford,  Steenbergen,  George, 
Eastham  and  other  well  known  families  of  the  mother  State. 

William  Bronaugh  was  married  twice,  first,  on  Aug.  14,  1799,  in 
King  George  county,  to  Maria  Fitzhugh,  daughter  of  Colonel 
William  and  Hannah  Fitzhugh,  of  "Marmion,"  in  that  county. 

Fitzhugh  Excursus. 

Col.  William  Fitzhugh  of  Marmion,  born  April  13,  1725,  died  in  1791, 
is  thought  to  have  been  the  Wm.  Fitzhugh  who  was  a  major  of  the  Staf- 
ford militia  in  1752,  and  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  I748-'5I. 
He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Maj.  John  Fitzhugh  of  Stafford,  who  married, 
about  1719,  Barbara  McCarty,  daughter  of  Daniel  McCarty  of  Westmore- 
land, who  was  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  etc.,  and  died  Jan.  21, 
l733-  Maj.  John  was  the  youngest  son  of  Col.  William  Fitzhugh,  the  dis- 
tinguished lawyer,  merchant,  and  planter  who  emigrated  from  Bedford- 
shire to  Virginia  about  1670,  where  he  purchased  large  tracts  of  land  and 
lived  in  great  style.  For  extensive  account  of  this  family  see  Virginia 
Historical  Magazine,  Vols.  VII  and  VIII. 

William  Bronaugh  and  Maria  Fitzhugh  had  issue  one  daughter, 
Maria,  who  is  said  to  have  died  unmarried.  Wm.  Bronaugh 
married,  second,  in  1805,  Mary  Catharine  Pope  Peyton,  fourth 
child  of  Yelverton  and  Elizabeth  Heath  Peyton,  of  Stafford 
county. 


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Peyton  Excursus. 


Yelverton  Peyton,  born  about  1735  in  Stafford  County,  died  in  that 
county  intestate  in  i794-'95,  was  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Rowzee 
Peyton.  Elizabeth  Heath  Peyton  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Heath  of 
Northumberland  County.  John  Peyton  of  "Stoney  Hill,"  Stafford  County, 
born,  in  1691,  died  May  12,  1760,  was  a  justice  of  the  Stafford  Court  in 
1745  and  later,  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1736,  i757-'s8- 
In  1737  he  was  a  vestryman  and  clerk  of  the  vestry  of  Quantico  Parish, 
and  in  1757  of  Overwharton  Parish.  He  was  a  close  friend  of  Bishop 
Meade's  father,  who  speaks  of  him  very  highly.  John  Peyton  was  mar- 
ried twice,  first  to  Anne  Waye,  and  secondly  to  Elizabeth  Rowzee,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Rowzee  of  Essex  County.  He  was  a  son  of  Henry  Peyton,  Jr., 
and  his  wife  Anne.  Henry  Peyton,  Jr.,  born  in  Virginia  in  1656,  was  a 
son  of  the  emigrant,  "Henry  Peyton  of  Aquia  in  the  county  of  Westmore- 
land, Gentleman,"  and  his  wife  Ellen.  He  was  born  in  England  about 
1630,  and  died  in  Westmoreland  in  1659,  and  is  said  to  have  been  "Henry 
Peyton,  Citizen  &  Merchant  Taylor  of  London,"  who  appears  in  the  Vir- 
ginia land  records  in  1658,  and  is  thought  to  have  been  the  "Hemry  Pay- 
ton,  son  of  Henry  Payton  of  Lincoln's  Inn  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
Armiger,  apprenticed  to  Samuel  Grove  of  Old  Change  for  7  years  on 
April  7,  1647."  His  wife  is  said  to  have  been  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Partington,  a  London  Draper. 

Crozier,  in  his  "Virginia  Heraldica,"  says  that  the  Peytons  of  West- 
moreland are  related  to  those  of  Gloucester,  and  use  the  same  arms  with 
the  addition  of  a  mullet  argent  in  the  second  quarter,  and  a  bordure 
ermine,"  for  difference.  The  arms  of  the  Gloucester  Peytons  are :  "Sable 
a  cross  engrailed  or.  Crest:  A  Griffin  sejant  or.  Motto:  "Patior  potior." 
He  further  says  that  the  Henry  Peyton  of  Lincoln's  Inn  died  in  London 
in  1656,  was  a  cadet  of  the  Peyton  family  of  Isleham.  He  had  issue : 
Robert,  born  1624;  Valentine,  Henry,  Lawrence,  John,  Charles,  and  three 
daughters.  Of  the  sons,  Valentine,  Henry,  Lawrence  and  John  all  came 
to  Virginia.  See  Hayden's  "Virginia  Genealogies,"  Hardy's  "Colonial 
Families  of  Southern  States,"   Crozier's  "Virginia  Heraldica,"  etc. 

William  Bronaugh  settled  on  his  Kanawha  farm  after  his  second 
marriage.    All  of  their  children  were  born  there,  and  after  forty- 
five  years  residence  in  Mason  removed  with  his  wife  and  a  son 
to  Cooper  county,  Missouri,  where  Mrs.  Bronaugh  died  in  1853 
and  he  died  in  1859  at  advanced  ages. 

William  and  Mary  Peyton  Bronaugh  had  issue : 

80.  Mary  Anne,  born  in  1806. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  351 

81.  Christopher  Columbus,  born  July  II,  1808,  died  July  9, 
1876. 

82.  Ludwell  Lee,  born  Sept.  8,  1810. 

83.  Thomas  Jefferson,  born  in  1812. 

84.  Addison  Carter,  born  in  1814. 
84.  Virginia,  born  in  181 7. 

86.  Belle,   born    1819.   died   in    1875. 

87.  William  Yelverton,  born  in  1821. 

88.  Warren  Carter,  born  in  1824,  died  in  infancy. 

89.  Catharine  Pope  Peyton,  born  in  1827. 

80.  Mary  Anne  Bronaugh,  married  in  1822,  William  Black- 
well,  said  to  have  been  a  nephew  of  General  John  Blackwell,  of 
Fauquier  county.  He  died  in  1827,  and  in  1830  she  married  David 
C.  Harrison,  by  whom  she  had  no  issue.  By  the  first  marriage 
there  was : 

90.  Catharine  Blackwell,  born  in  1823,  died  in  1848. 

91.  John  William  Blackwell,  born  in  1825,  died  in  1879. 

Blackwell  Excursus. 

If,  as  stated  in  Hayden's  "Virginia  Genealogies,"  William  Blackwell, 
husband  of  Mary  Anne  Bronaugh,  was  a  nephew  of  General  John  Black- 
well,  then  he  must  have  been  a  son  of  George  Steptoe  Blackwell,  born  in 
1753,  living  in  1787,  who  is  said  to  have  married  and  had  several  children, 
as  the  sons  of  all  the  other  brothers  of  General  John  are  known.  Miss 
Stella   Pickett  Hardy  has  kindly  given  me   data  of  this   family. 

George  Steptoe  Blackwell,  born  in  1753,  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Blackwell 
of  Northumberland  County,  and  his  wife  Lucy  Steptoe,  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  Eustace  Steptoe  of  Lancaster  County.  Joseph  Blackwell, 
born  July  9,  1715,  at  "Walnut  Lodge,"  Northumberland,  died  in  Fau- 
quier between  April  26,  and  June  25,  1787.  He  was  a  second  lieutenant 
for  two  years  in  the  3rd  Va.  Regt.  in  the  Revolution,  and  was  the  second 
son  of  Samuel  and  Margery  Downing  Blackwell  of  "Walnut  Lodge," 
Northumberland.  Samuel  Blackwell,  born  Sept.  23,  1680,  died  in  1732, 
vestryman,  justice,  etc.,  married,  circa,  1709,  Margery,  daughter  of  William 
Downing,  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Blackwell,  the  emigrant  to  Northumber- 
land County  prior  to  1680. 

90.  Catharine  Blackwell,  married  in  1839,  Rev.  Samuel 
Wiatt,  a  Baptist  minister,  and  had  issue :     a.  John  David  Wiatt, 


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died  in  the  Confederate  army ;  b.  Mary  Anne,  died  infant ;  c.  Fran- 
cis Wiatt,  married  a  Mr.  Dabney ;  d.  William  Edmund  Wiatt, 
married  Louisa  Slaughter  and  had  issue :  Wm.  Slaughter  Wiatt, 
married  Nov.  n,  1904,  Emma  Moore,  of  Boston;  Charles  Wiatt; 
Frances  Wiatt,  married  Rev.  Arthur  Darrow,  a  Baptist  missionary 
in  India ;  Walter  Wiatt,  a  Baptist  missionary  in  India,  married 
Maud  Darrow  on  Sept.  7,  1904;  Katharine  Wiatt,  married  in 
Oct.,  1908,  Dr.  N.  J.  Lynott,  of  East  St.  Louis ;  Margaret  Wiatt, 
Neoma  Wiatt  and  Ruth  Wiatt. 

91.  John  William  Blackwell,  married  in  1845  Sarah  E. 
Jones  and  had  issue  Marie,  John  Wm.,  George  H.,  Lucy,  married 
Saunders,  Chas.  H.,  Edward,  Elizabeh. 

81.  Christopher  Columbus  Bronaugh,  was  married  in  1839 
at  Warrenton,  Va.,  to  his  cousin,  Mary  Anne  Elizabeth  Waters 
(born  1820),  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Samuel  Heath  Peyton 
Waters.  Mr.  Bronaugh  was  a  lawyer  and  a  year  after  his  mar- 
riage removed  from  Mason  county  to  Henry  county,  Mo.,  where 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  was  on  the  bench  for  ten  years  in 
Missouri,  and  in  addition  to  his  law  practice,  owned  and  managed 
a  large  farm  in  Henry  county.    They  had  issue : 

92.  Eugenia  Bronaugh,  born  in  1842,  married  Aug.  15,  1867, 
John  a  Bushnell,  a  merchant  of  Calhoun,  Mo.,  born  in  Harrison- 
burg, Va.,  in  1830,  died  in  1876  in  Missouri  and  had  issue :  Horace 
B.  and  John  Adams  Bushnell. 

93.  William  Yelverton  Bronaugh,  born  in  1843,  died  infant. 

94.  Frederick  Peyton  Bronaugh,  was  a  captain  in  the  Confed- 
erate army.  In  1867  he  was  married  to  Helen  Myers,  of  Boone- 
ville,  Mo.,  and  lived  on  his  farm  "Steep  Hill,"  near  that  place. 
They  had  issue :  Frederick  Lewis,  born  in  1872  ;  William  Hamp- 
ton, in  1874;  Christopher  C,  in  1877;  Henry  Peyton,  in  1879; 
Francis  Eugene,  in  1882,  and  John  Bushnell,  in  1885. 

95.  Warren  Carter  Bronaugh,  born  in  1846,  was  in  a  Con- 
federate regiment  from  Parsons,  Mo.  In  1885  he  married  Eva 
Blankerbaker  and  lives  at  Bronaugh,  near  Clinton,  Mo.  He  is 
a  stockman  and  has  ranches  in  Texas  and  Missouri. 

96.  Carrie  Maria  Bronaugh,  born  in  1848. 


Capt.  Johx  Henderson.  Sr.,  of  The  Revolution, 
(i 740- 1787) 

Col.  John  Henderson,  Jr.,  of  The  War  1812. 
(1768-1824) 

Mrs.  John  Henderson.  Jr..  nee  Elizabeth  Stodghill. 
(1 776-1846) 

Mrs.  John  Miller,  nee  Sallie  Henderson. 
(1 797-1872) 

Hendfrson  House,  at  mouth  of  the  Great  Kanawha,  1811. 
Henderson  Arms 

(See  page   191-) 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  353 

97.  Samuel  Heath  Peyton  Bronaugh,  is  a  lawyer  and  on  the 
bench  in  Concho  county,  Texas. 

98.  Thomas  Jefferson  Bronaugh,  born  in  1853,  died  in  1878. 

99.  Francis  William  Bronaugh,  born  in  1857,  unmarried. 

100.  Cora  Bronaugh,  born  in  1859,  nves  at  5°95  Cabanne 
Avenue,  St.  Louis. 

101.  Mary  Bronaugh,  born  in  i860,  married  a  Mr.  French. 

82.  Ludwell  Lee  Bronaugh,  born  in  1810,  inherited  the  old 
home  place  on  Kanawha,  where  he  was  born  and  died.  During 
the  war  he  was  imprisoned  at  Wheeling  as  a  Southern  sympa- 
thizer for  six  months.  May  8,  1835,  he  was  married  to  Sarah 
Allen,  born  in  1818,  daughter  of  David  Allen,  of  Fauquier  county. 
They  had  issue  eight  children : 

102.  Sarah  Catharine  Bronaugh,  born  in  1837,  married  Jan.  14, 
1864,  Charles  Thomas  Fife,  of  Putnam  county,  and  has  issue: 
William  Edwin,  married  Retta  Nash ;  Mary  Elizabeth ;  Thomas 
Lee ;  Sarah  R.,  married  James  B.  Morgan,  Jr. ;  Houston  Estill, 
married  Nannie  A.  Row,  of  Orange  county,  Va. ;  Robert  Garnett 
married  Amanda  M.  Yeager,  of  Orange  county,  and  Anna  Katha- 
rine. 

103.  Charles  Eastham  Bronaugh,  born  in  1840,  was  in  Company 
A,  Thirty-sixth  Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A.,  and  died  of  typhoid 
fever  in  hospital  at  Lewisburg  in  1861. 

104.  Edwin  Addison  Bronaugh,  born  in  1843,  was  *n  the 
Thirty-sixth  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A. 

105.  William  Daniel  Bronaugh,  d.  3.  p. 

106.  Robert  Warren  Bronaugh,  d.  s.  p. 

107.  Mary  Elizabeth  Bronaugh,  d.  s.  p. 

108.  Lewis  Ludwell  Bronaugh,  born  in  1855,  married  Sarah 
Dulaney  and  had  a  son,  Charles  Lewis  Bronaugh. 

109.  Frances  Edith  Bronaugh,  married  Charles  A.  Love,  of 
Cabell  county,  and  had  issue  Edwin,  Edith  and  Grace.  All  died 
infants. 

83.  Thomas  Jefferson  Bronaugh.  born  in  1812,  was  married 
Oct.  18,  1832,  at  "Fordell,"  Mason  county,  to  Nancy  Henderson, 
born  Nov.  11,  181 1,  died  Feb.  1,  1886,  seventh  daughter  of  Colonel 


354  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

John  Henderson.  Colonel  Henderson  was  colonel  of  the  106th 
Virginia  Regiment  of  Militia,  part  of  whom  saw  service  in  the 
War  of  1812 ;  member  of  the  Virginia  Assembly,  high  sheriff, 
justice  of  the  first  court,  etc.,  of  Mason  county.  See  Henderson 
Excursus  in  a  preceding  section  of  this  work. 

About  1840- 1842  Mr.  Bronaugh  removed  his  family  to  a  large 
farm  he  owned  in  Henry  county,  Missouri,  near  Calhoun.  They 
had  issue : 

no.  John  William  Bronaugh,  M.  D.,  born  in  1834,  married  in 
1862  Georgia  R.  Knox,  of  Shawnee  Mound,  Mo.,  and  had  issue, 
Francis,  Marshall,  Preston  and  John. 

in.  Mary  Catharine  Bronaugh,  born  in  1836,  married  in  1874 
Henry  T.  Redford,  a  Henry  county  farmer,  and  had  issue :  Emma, 
Mary,  James  B.  and  Henry  Lee. 

112.  James  Henderson  Bronaugh,  M.  D.,  born  in  1838,  married 
in  1868  Leona  C.  Knox,  and  had  issue:  Bessie,  Lilly,  John  and 
Fitzhugh. 

113.  Christopher  Columbus  Bronaugh,  farmer  Henry  county, 
unmarried. 

114.  David  Harrison  Bronaugh,  born  1843,  removed  to  Los 
Angeles,  Cal. 

115.  Thomas  J.  Bronaugh,  Jr.,  born  1845,  died  prior  to  1888. 

116.  Emily  Elizabeth  Bronaugh,  born  in  1847,  died  prior  to 
1888. 

84.  Addison  Carter  Bronaugh,  born  in  1814,  married  Susan 
Travers  Peyton  and  had  four  children,  all  of  whom  died  in 
infancy. 

85.  Virginia  Bronaugh,  born  in  1817,  married  Dr.  Edward 
Chilton,  son  of  Mark  Anthony  and  Eloise  Blackwell  Chilton,  of 
Missouri,  and  grandson  of  General  John  Blackwell  and  his  wife, 
Agatha  Anne  Conway  Eustace. 

Chilton  Excursus. 

Mark  Anthony  Chilton  was  the  fourth  son  of  Charles  Chilton, 
of  "Hereford,"  Prince  William  county,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
Blackwell,  born  1742,  dauglTter  of  Joseph  and  Lucy  Steptoe  Black- 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  355 

well,  of  Fauquier.  Charles  Chilton,  born  in  1741,  was  a  signer 
of  the  Westmoreland  Protest  against  the  Stamp  Act  in  1765,  and 
was  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Jemima  Cooke  Chilton,  of  "Currioman," 
Westmoreland  county.  Thomas  Chilton,  born  in  1699,  died  in 
1775,  was  the  son  of  John  Chilton,  whose  tomb  at  "Currioman'' 
shows  that  he  died  July  11,  1726.  See  Colonial  Families  of  the 
Southern  States. 

Dr.  Edward  and  Virginia  Bronaugh  Chilton  had  issue : 
Ellen  Chilton,  married  John  Thornton,  of  Clinton,  Mo.,  and  had 
son,  Edward  Thornton. 

Catharine  Chilton,  married  James  Vickers,  of  Montrose,  Mo., 
and  died  in  1882,  without  issue. 

86.  Belle  Bronaugh,  born  in  1819,  married  in  1845  Douglas 
A.  Tucker,  had  a  son,  John  E.  Tucker,  who  was  married  in  1880. 
and  has  son,  James  D.,  and  daughter,  Elizabeth  Tucker. 

87.  William  Yelverton  Bronaugh,  born  in  1821,  was  a 
captain  in  the  Confederate  army,  and  died  in  service  in  1863. 
He  married  Martha  Newman,  of  Natches,  Miss.,  and  had  issue : 
Yelverton  Peyton,  Margaret,  Jennie,  Mary,  Gertrude  and  William. 

89.  Catharine  Pope  Peyton  Bronaugh,  born  in  1827,  was 
married  in  1849  to  Jacob  Hutton  Tucker,  born  in  1809  in  Hamp- 
shire county,  Ya.,  died  in  1856  in  Cooper  county.  Mo.  She  mar- 
ried, second,  in  i860,  William  K.  Ruffner. 

Issue  first  marriage  :  Fannie  Tucker,  married  in  1872  James  E. 
Watson  and  has  son,  Edwin. 

Issue  second  marriage :  Elizabeth,  William  H..  Mary  Chilton 
and  Owen  Ernest  Ruffner. 

21.  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh.  born  in  1778,  after  the  death 
of  her  father,  Dr.  John  Bronaugh,  of  Stafford  county,  married 
Dec.  19,  1799,  Joseph  Hale,  just  a  year  and  seven  days  after 
the  death  of  his  first  wife,  who  was  her  first  cousin,  Margaret 
Bronaugh,  daughter  of  Captain  William  and  Margaret  Murdock 
Bronaugh.  Joseph  Hale,  born  Dec.  19,  1770,  died  March  23, 
1825-1826  and  is  buried  at  the  old  Harvey  place,  a  few  miles 
lower  down  the  Kanawha  than  the  Bronaugh   farm.     He  had 


356       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

no  issue  by  the  second  wife,  but  had  two  daughters  by  his  first 
wife,  whom  he  married  Oct.  26,  1791.  These  were  always  spoken 
of  as  children  of  the  second  wife,  Anne  Carter  Bronaugh  Hale. 
They  were : 

Sarah  Smith  Hale,  born  Oct.  28,  1793,  died  Oct.  5,  1850. 

Mary  Daniphan  Hale,  born  Feb.  17,  1798,  died  May  17,  1819. 

Sarah  Smith  Hale,  married  June  29,  1809,  Dr.  Henry  Bowyer 
Harvey,  who  settled  at  the  old  Hale  place  on  the  Kanawha,  now 
known  as  the  Harvey  farm,  below  Buffalo.  They  had  issue  twelve 
children,  who,  though  not  of  the  Carter  blood,  are,  because  of 
their  intimate  connection  and  relationship  to  their  step-grand- 
mother, Anne  Carter  Bronaugh,  given  here.     They  were : 

Mary  Margaret,  born  Dec.  7,  181 1,  died  Oct.  4,  1824,  married 
Peter  E.  Hogg. 

Robert  Trigg  Harvey,  born  June  14,  1814,  died  Jan.  5,  1896, 
married  Annie  M.  Hope. 

Joseph  Hale  Harvey,  born  July  3,  18 16,  married  Louise  Destre- 
han,  died  May  19,  1882. 

Martha  Anne  Harvey,  born  Aug.  7,  1819,  died  June,  1893,  mar- 
ried P.  A.  C.  Kemper. 

Magdalen  Louise  Harvey,  born  July  26,  1820,  died  unmarried. 

Lewis  Henry  Harvey,  born  June  6,  1822,  died  Jan.  19,  1825. 

Sarah  Frances  Harvey,  born  May  14,  1824,  died  Oct.  11,  1891, 
married  Geo.  W.  Carper. 

James  Craine  Bronaugh  Harvey,  M.  D.,  born  Nov.  21,  1826, 
died  Jan.  4,  1862,  married  a  Miss  Miller. 

George  William  Harvey,  born  April  29,  1829,  died  unmarried 
in  1851. 

Henry  Bowyer  Harvey,  born  May  11,  1831,  died  April  4,  1892, 
married  Sallie  A.  Fort. 

Caroline  Maria  Harvey,  born  Jan.  30,  1831,  married  first  a  Mr. 
Pettie,  second  Rev.  Mr.  Weightman. 

Henry  Lewis  Harvey,  born  Sept.  4,  1836,  died  Aug.  2,  1841. 

Carters  of  "Daleland"  and  "Nutsworth." 

12.  Joseph  Carter,  III.,  born  about  i76o-'65,  son  of  Joseph 
Carter,  II.,  and  his  second  wife  Lettice  Linton,  married  and  set- 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  357 

tied  in  Lancaster,  where  he  died  in  181 5.  He  is  said  to  have  been 
married  twice,  and  he  may  have  been  the  Joseph  Carter  who  mar- 
ried Sarah  Chilton  in  June,  1783.  His  will  shows  his  last  wife 
to  have  been  Frances  Everett.  This  will,  probated  in  Lancaster 
Dec.  18,  181 5,  left  a  good  estate  to  wife  Frances  Everett  Carter, 
and  his  eight  children,  and  desired  that  his  wife  should  educate 
the  younger  children  in  "as  liberal  a  manner"  as  he  had  the  three 
older  ones.  Sons  Joseph  Addison  and  Warren  to  be  executors. 
They  and  a  daughter  Mary  were  probably  the  three  older  chil- 
dren and  the  issue  by  his  first  marriage.     He  had  issue : 

118.  Joseph  Addison  Carter,  died  prior  to  1843. 

119.  Warren  Carter.     No  data. 

120.  Mary  Carter.     No  data. 

121.  William  Henry  Carter. 

122.  John  Miller  Carter.     No  data. 

123.  Robert  Carter.     No  data. 

124.  Alexander  Carter.     No  data. 

125.  Frances  Carter.     No  data. 

118.  Joseph  Addison  Carter  (Joseph  Carter  IV.)  owned  a 
plantation  in  Lancaster  called  "Nutsworth,"  which,  judging  by 
the  name,  probably  belonged  originally  to  his  wife's  father,  Dr. 
Nutt.  A  bill  of  sale  in  Westmoreland  county,  dated  Aug.  2,  1830, 
shows  that  Joseph  Addison  Carter  was  "Deputy  Marshall  of  John 
Standard,  Marshall  for  the  Superior  Court  of  Chancery  for  Fred- 
ericksburg Dist."  From  Hayden's  Virginia  Genealogies  it  is 
learned  that  Joseph  Addison  Carter  married  Eliza  Chinn  Nutt, 
daughter  of  a  Dr.  Nutt  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Chinn,  born  Sept. 
27,  1774,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Chinn. 

Chinn,  Ball  and  Yates  Excursus. 

John  Chinn,  born  in  1739,  died  Feb.  7,  1791,  vestryman  Christ  Church, 
i769-'84,  church  warden  1769,  1775  and  1783,  married,  March  16,  1765, 
Sarah  Yates,  born  1742,  died  1794,  daughter  of  Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates. 
John  Chinn  was  a  son  of  Joseph  Chinn,  died  Jan.  28,  1784,  High  Sheriff 
of  Lancaster  i730-'34,  Justice  1734,  Burgess  1748,  1752,  and  1754,  vestry- 
man Christ  Church  i739-'5i,  married,  May  2,  1727,  Elizabeth  Ball.  Joseph 
Chinn  was  the  eldest  son  of  Raleigh  Chinn,  vestryman  1739,  died  in  Aug. 
1741,  and  his  wife  Esther  Ball,  born  in  1685,  died  in  May,  1751,  daughter 


358       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

of  Col.  Joseph  Ball  of  "Epping  Forest,"  and  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  Rom- 
ney.  Col.  Ball,  born  May  24,  1649  in  England,  died  in  June,  171 1,  was  a 
son  of  the  emigrants  Col.  William  Ball  and  his  wife  Hannah  Atherold  of 
"Millenbeck"  (said  to  have  been  named  for  two  daughters,  Mildred  and 
Rebecca,  who  died  prior  to  their  father).  Col.  Joseph  Ball  was  an  officer 
in  the  Lancaster  militia,  vestryman,  etc.,  but  is  chiefly  distinguished  as  the 
grandfather  of  General  Washington. 

Raleigh  Chinn  is  thought  to  have  been  a  son  of  John  Chynn,  Planter 
of  Moratico,  Lancaster.  Bishop  Meade  says:  "From  Raleigh  Chinn  de- 
scend those  model  males  and  females  of  that  name  who  have  served  to 
give  character  to  our  country." 

Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates,  born  1677,  died  July  26,  1734,  father  of  Sarah 
Chinn,  was  graduated  from  Brazenose  College,  Oxford,  Oct.  12,  1698,  was 
ordained  and  licensed  to  preach  in  Virginia  in  1700;  and  rector  of 
Christ  Church  Parish,  Middlesex,  for  thirty  years,  having  succeeded  his 
father,  Rev.  Robert  Yates  in  this  parish  in  1704.  He  was  married  to 
Sarah  Mickelborough,  September  14,  1704. 

Joseph  Addison  Carter  died  prior  to  Nov.  20,  1843,  as  shown 
by  the  will  of  "Eliza  Chinn  Carter,  widow  of  Joseph  Addison 
Carter,"  probated  on  that  day.  She  left  all  her  estate  to  educate 
and  provide  for  her  three  younger  children,  as  the  others  had  been 
better  educated,  etc.,  in  their  father's  lifetime.  Her  daughter  Eu- 
genia prayed  the  court  for  an  appeal  from  this.  Son  Addison  L. 
executor.     Jos.  and  Eliza  Carter  had  issue : 

126.  Margaret  Elizabeth  Yates  Carter,  married  John  B.  Bran- 
ham  and  had  four  children. 

127.  Adelina  Somerville  Carter,  married  W.  L.  G.  Mitchell. 

128.  Roselina  Althea  Carter,  married  a  Mr.  Smart. 

129.  Eugenia  Carter,  mentioned  above. 

130.  Addison  Lombard  Carter,  married  Mary  Jones  and  had 
one  child.  The  Richmond  County  records  show  that  Addison  L. 
Carter  of  Lancaster  purchased  on  March  20,  1852,  from  Wm.  E. 
Hill  464  acres  of  land  in  Richmond,  and  on  the  27th  of  the  month 
834  acres  from  John  P.  Armstrong.  April  6,  1852,  Addison  L. 
Carter  and  wife  Mary  sold  881  acres  to  Wm.  M.  Jackson  and 
Thos.  A.  Watson,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

121.  William  Henry  Carter,  son  of  Joseph  and  Frances  Car- 
ter, was  married  Feb.  22,  1831,  to  Harriet  Ball,  born  Feb.  14,  1814, 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  359 

daughter  of  Hilkiah  and  Harriett  Ball,  who  were  married  Nov. 

11,  1811. 

Ball  Excursus. 

Hilkiah  Ball,  born  in  1786,  died  Jan.  5,  1832,  was  a  son  of  George  and 
Jane  Ball,  and  his  wife  was  a  daughter  of  David  Ball.  George  Ball  was 
the  eldest  son  of  Capt.  David  Ball,  born  1737,  died  in  181 1,  vestryman 
Wiccomco  Parish  1770,  and  his  wife  Hannah  Haynie,  and  was  grandson 
of  Capt.  George  Ball,  died  in  Sept.,  1770,  justice  of  Northumberland  1753, 
sheriff  1757,  vestryman  1770,  etc.,  who  married  on  June  14,  1736  Anne  Tay- 
lor, daughter  of  Elizabeth  Taylor  of  Lancaster.  He  was  a  son  of  Capt. 
George  Ball,  Sr.,  of  Wicomico,  Northumberland,  born  168 — ,  died  1746, 
who  was  a  son  of  Capt.  William  Ball  of  Lancaster,  born  Jan.  2,  1641,  died 
Sept.  30,  1694,  justice  1680,  Burgess  1685,  captain  militia  1672,  etc,  and 
his  wife  Margaret  Downman.     See  "Virginia  Genealogies." 

Wm.  H.  and  Harriet  Ball  Carter  had  issue : 

131.  Joseph  Addison  Carter,  born  in  June,  1832. 

132.  William  Henry  Carter,  born  April  29,  1835. 

134.  Frances  Everett  and  Robert  Warren  Carter,  twins,  born 
April  8,  1838. 

135.  Virginia  Page  Carter,  born  March  22,  1840. 

136.  John  Miller  Carter,  born  in  Nov.,  1842. 

137.  Mary  Jane  Carter,  born  June  30,  1845. 

When  Rev.  Mr.  Hay  den  was  writing  in  1891  Frances  Everett 
was  the  only  member  of  this  family  living. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  descendants  of  Mary  Anne  Carter 
Bronaugh  in  Mason  county,  and  of  her  half  brother  Joseph  Carter 
in  Lancaster,  have  handed  down  the  similar  names  of  Addison 
and  Warren. 

127.  Adelina  Somerville  Carter,  married  William  Lawrence 
Gunnion  Mitchell,  son  of  William  Ball  Mitchell  and  his  wife  Mar- 
garet Downman,  born  March  31,  1786,  daughter  of  Joseph  Ball 
Downman  of  "Moratico"  and  his  wife  Olivia  Payne,  daughter  of 
Capt.  Wm.  Payne  of  Warnick,  England.  Jos.  Ball  Downman  was 
a  great  grandson  of  Col.  Joseph  Ball  of  "Epping  Forest,"  Lan- 
caster. 

W.  L.  G.  Mitchell  and  A.  S.  Carter  had  issue : 

138.  Wilhelmina,  married  Henry  N.  Harrison. 

139.  Somerville,  married  a  Miss  Thornton. 


36o       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

140.  Lombard,  married  a  Miss  Fitzhugh. 

141.  Robert. 

142.  Margaret. 

143.  Lawrence. 

144.  Adelina. 

145.  Eliza. 

146.  William  Ball. 

147.  Hampton. 

148.  John  Chinn,  born  March  6,  1868,  died  in  1869. 

Carters  of  Daleland — George  Carter  Branch. 

2.  George  Carter,  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann  Pines  Carter,  was 
born,  lived  and  died  in  White  Chapel  Parish,  Lancaster.  In  the 
census  of  1783  he  was  the  head  of  a  family  of  five  white  persons 
and  twenty-one  servants. 

Feb.  24,  1791,  "George  Carter  of  White  Chapel  Parish,  Gent.," 
made  his  will,  in  which  he  speaks  of  being  "very  old."  It  was 
probated  Dec.  19,  1791.  He  left  his  entire  estate  to  wife  Ellen 
for  the  remainder  of  her  life,  after  which  the  home  plantation  and 
thirteen  negroes  to  son  Joseph  Carter  ;  one  negro  to  granddaughter 
Katy  Chinn  Carter ;  daughter  Jane  Berry,  wife  of  George  Berry, 
having  had  her  portion,  was  to  have  now  but  two  negroes,  her 
choice  of  beds,  and  a  large  walnut  table ;  daughter  Ellen  Phillips 
to  have  nine  negroes,  a  desk,  second  choice  of  beds,  and  if  she 
died  without  issue  her  share  was  to  revert  to  the  children  of  her 
brother  and  sister. 

Joseph  Carter  is  said  to  have  married  a  Miss  Chinn  and  had  a 
family  of  girls — Carter  MSS.     No  further  data. 

Jane  Carter  married  George  Berry  in  Jan.,  1783,  and  was  living 
in  Northumberland  County  in  1784,  at  which  time  she  had  one 
child.  No  further  data  of  either  of  the  daughters  of  George  and 
Ellen  Carter. 

Carters  of  Daleland — Henry  Carter  Branch. 

3.  Henry  Carter,  youngest  son  of  Joseph  and  Anne  Pines 
Carter,  owned  a  good  plantation  in  White  Chapel  Parish,  where 
he  died  some  time  after  1785.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  French 
and  Indian  War — Starke  notes.  Aug.  9,  1758  he  was  married  to 
Hannah  Chilton  in  Lancaster  County,  said  to  have  been  a  daughter 
of  William  Chilton,  Sr.     (Carter  MSS.) 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  361 

The  Chiltons  of  Lancaster. 

The  Chilton  family  of  Lancaster  was  settled  in  that  county  at  an  early 
date,  and  doubtless  were  more  or  less  closely  connected  with  the  family 
of  Westmoreland  Chiltons.  The  Lancaster  Chiltons  have  been  more  or 
less  prominent  in  the  county  affairs  since  prior  to  the  Revolution,  and  the 
present  clerk  of  the  county  is  a  member  of  that  family.  Unfortunately 
I  did  not  know  of  this  Carter-Chilton  connection  when  in  Lancaster,  else 
would  have  made  abstracts  of  the  Chilton  wills.  I  remember  to  have  seen 
among  the  original  papers  of  the  eighteenth  century,  one  signed  by  a  Wm. 
Chilton,  and  bearing  a  seal  with  a  coat-of-arms,  which,  as  well  as  I  re- 
member, was  similar  to  those  borne  by  the  Westmoreland  Chiltons,  which 
are:  Arms, — Argent  a  chevron  gules  within  a  bordure,  gobonated  or.  and 
az.     Crest,— A  griffin  passant  sable  bazantee.    Motto,— Terra  et  mare. 

(From  old  seal  owned  by  Miss  Stella  Pickett  Hardy,  Batesville,  Ark.) 
The  census  of  1783  shows  that  William  Chilton,  Sr.,  and  his  wife  were 
living  alone,  and  owned  seventeen  servants.  Wm.  Chilton,  Jr.,  was  the 
head  of  a  family  of  six,  and  eight  servants.  George  Carter  and  Henry 
Carter  probably  lived  near  the  Chiltons,  as  their  names  appear  together 
in  the  census  report. 

Henry  Carter  in  1783  had  8  white  persons  and  16  colored 
servants  in  family.  The  author  of  the  Carter  MSS.  in  speaking 
of  Henry  Carter,  says :  "I  remember  the  old  gentleman  very  well. 
He  had  eight  or  ten  children,  Joseph,  John,  William,  Henry,  Robert 
and  several  daughters.  John  died  in  this  county  about  forty  years 
ago,  leaving  several  children  and  a  good  estate.  He  had  a  son 
Rawley  by  his  first  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  George  Conway, 
whose  widow  married  Spencer  Carter,  and  a  son  Robert  and  three 
or  four  other  children  by  his  last  wife,  who,  I  think,  was  a  Miss 
George.  The  other  sons  moved  away."  I  have  no  further  data 
of  Henry  Carter's  descendants  except  through  his  son  John  Car- 
ter, No.  149. 

149.  John  Carter  (Henry,  Jos.,  Thos.)  was  married  on  Jan. 
22,  1795,  by  Rev.  B.  Phillips  to  Grace  Ball  Conway,  daughter  of 
George  and  Anne  Downman  Conway. 

Conway,  Downman  Excursus. 

George  Conway,  born  in  1744,  died  prior  to  1792,  was  a  son  of  George 
Conway,  Sr.,  died  in  May,  1754,  and  his  wife  Anne  Heath,  born  May  9, 
1721.  daughter  of  Samuel  Heath.     George  Conway,  Sr.,  was  a  son  of  Col. 


362       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Edwin  Conway,  born  in  1681,  died  Oct.  3,  1763,  and  his  wife  Anne  Ball, 
daughter  of  Col.  Joseph  Ball  and  Elizabeth  Romney,  and  half  sister  of  the 
mother  of  General  Washington.  Colonel  Edwin  Conway  was  a  son  of 
Edwin  Conway  and  Sarah  Fleete,  and  his  son-in-law,  Col.  James  Gordon, 
said,  "was  a  man  of  very  great  parts."  He  was  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses  1710  to  1742,  except  in  1720;  vestryman  of  Christ  Church 
and  St.  Mary's  i739-'63,  etc. 

Grace  Ball  Conway  Carter's  mother,  Anne  Downman,  born  Sept.  20, 
1748,  was  a  daughter  of  Travers  and  Grace  Ball  Downman.  Travers 
Downman,  born  Mar.  16,  1726,  married  Dec.  23,  1748,  to  Grace  Ball, 
daughter  of  Capt.  George  Ball  and  his  wife  Grace  Waddy  of  Wiccomico, 
Northumberland   County.      See   Hayden's   Virginia   Genealogies. 

John  Carter  and  Grace  Ball  Conway  had  an  only  son,  Raleigh 
Downman  Carter,  of  whom  later.  This  wife  died  and  he  married 
Carmin  George  ( ?),  by  whom  he  had  issue  sons  Robert,  John  and 
Joseph,  named  in  his  will,  and  possibly  others.  He  made  his  will 
Dec.  23,  1 82 1,  probated  Mar.  18,  1822.  He  gave  to  son  Raleigh 
Carter  seven  negroes  he  had  already  loaned  him  and  gave  wife 
Carmin  Carter  the  use  of  all  lands  and  personal  property,  including 
fourteen  negroes  named  in  the  will  "for  the  support  and  education 
of  my  three  young  children,  Robert,  John  and  Joseph  Carter." 

Raleigh  Downman  Carter  married  a  Miss  Hughlett,  of  North- 
umberland County,  and  had  among  other  children,  Tascoe  Conway 
Carter,  eldest  son,  who  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Lee  Harvey ;  "her 
mother  was  Susan  Lee  of  Cobbs  Hall,  the  Colonial  home  of 
Charles  Lee,  first  cos.  to  Gen.  R.  E.  Lee  of  Army  of  Northern  Vir- 
ginia. This  is  about  all  that  I  can  tell.  I  was  raised  at  Cobbs 
Hall  by  my  uncle  Lewis  Giles  Harvey" — Capt.  William  Harvey 
Carter,  of  Wiccomico  Church,  Northumberland  County,  son  of 
Tascoe  Conway  Carter  and  M.  E.  L.  Harvey  Carter. 

Starke  Family. 
7.  Tabitha  Carter,  daughter  of  Jos.  and  Ann  Pines  Carter  of 
"Daleland,"  born  circa  i722-'24,  died  in  Stafford  Nov.  6,  1759. 
She  was  married  in  1741  to  William  Lowry  and  settled  in  Stafford 
County,  where  he  died  in  1745,  leaving  two  children: 

150.  Judith  Lowry,  born  Feb.  13,  1742. 

151.  George  Lowry,  born  Nov.  24,  1744. 

No  further  data  of  them  except  that  both  were  living  Nov.  8, 
1757>  when  their  stepfather,  Jeremiah  Starke  rendered  an  account 
as  guardian  of  their  estate. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  363 

Jan.  29,  1747,  Mrs.  Tabitha  Carter  Lowry  was  married  to  Jere- 
miah Starke,  second  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Thornton  Starke, 
who  came  to  Stafford  County,  Va.?  in  171 7.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  a  lawyer  and  to  have  had  brothers  Archibald,  Daniel,  and 
Jeremiah,  who  also  came  to  America. 

Jeremiah  Starke  is  said  to  have  been  born  about  1726  in  Staf- 
ford, and  to  have  been  in  the  Virginia  troops  against  the  French 
and  Indians  when  he  was  wounded  by  an  Indian  arrow  in  the  arm 
so  badly  that  it  was  necessary  to  amputate  the  arm.  After  the 
death  of  Tabitha  Carter  Lowry  Starke,  Jeremiah  Starke  married  a 
Mary  Elizabeth  Green  or  Guinn,  by  whom  he  had  several  children. 
He  and  all  of  his  sons  are  said  to  have  served  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  He  died  in  Stafford  in  1805.  A  branch  of  the  family 
in  Tennessee  has  an  old  silver  snuff  box  that  bears  the  date  1744, 
and  the  motto,  "fortionim  fortia  facta''  the  motto  of  the  Starke 
family  arms,  and  is  said  to  have  belonged  to  James  Starke. 

Jeremiah  and  Tabitha  Carter  Starke  had  issue : 

152.  John  Carter  Starke,  born  Nov.  16,  1748. 

153.  Henry  Carter  Starke,  born  in  i750-'5i. 

154.  Mary  Starke,  born  May  19,  1753. 

155.  Robert  Starke,  born  in  1755. 

152.  John  Carter  Starke,  born  in  1748,  died  in  1814,  in  Sum- 
ner County,  Tenn.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  lawyer  and  farmer, 
and  to  have  served  four  years  in  the  latter  part  of  the  Revolution. 
Removed  to  Tennessee  between  1790  and  1800.  Jan.  4,  1769, 
John  Carter  Starke  was  married  to  Sarah  English  (or  Inglish), 
born  July  23,  1749,  died  in  1820.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Capt. 
John  English  and  his  wife  Prudence  Thornton  of  King  George 
County.  "Sarah  English's  grandmother  on  the  Thornton  side 
was  Margaret  Carter,  own  cousin  of  Tabitha  Carter  Starke.  Col. 
Thornton,  own  uncle  to  Aunt  Charlotte,  wrote  to  John  Starke  of 
lands  in  1800.  When  he  came  out  he  brought  Jackson  to  see  him, 
with  whom  he  had  served."  If  it  be  true  that  Margaret  Carter 
Thornton  was  a  first  cousin  of  Tabitha  Carter,  she  must  have  been 
the  daughter  of  Peter  Carter,  who  died  in  Lancaster  in  1721  by 
his  second  wife,  as  Peter's  daughter  Margaret  was  the  only  Mar- 
garet in  that  generation. 


364       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

John  Carter  Starke  was  a  strong  Baptist,  and  established  the 
first  Baptist  church  on  Drake's  Creek,  Sumner  County,  Tenn.,  of 
which  he  was  clerk.     He  had  issue  by  his  wife  Sarah  English : 

156.  Mehethlen  Starke,  born  in  1770. 

157.  Prudence  Starke. 

158.  Charlotte  Starke. 

159.  Thornton  Starke. 

160.  Jeremiah  Starke. 

161.  Alexander  Starke,  born  in  1780. 

162.  Tomat  Starke. 

163.  Elizabeth  Starke. 

164.  John  Starke,  born  in  1788  in  Stafford  County,  Va. 

161.  Alexander  Starke,  born  in  Stafford  County,  died  in  1862 
in  Sumner  County,  Tenn.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
John  and  Frances  Coleman  Waters  and  had  issue: 

165.  Coleman  Starke. 

166.  John  Starke. 

167.  Henry  Carter  Starke. 

168.  Alexander  Starke. 

169.  Margaret  Starke. 

170.  Mehethlen  Starke. 

171.  Elizabeth  Starke. 

172.  Sarah  Starke. 

173.  Frances  Starke. 

164.  John  Starke,  born  in  Stafford  County  May  8,  1788,  died 
in  Sumner  County,  Tenn.,  in  1862.  He  was  married  Sept.  6,  1812, 
to  Margaret  Primm,  born  Oct.  1,  1787,  daughter  of  Capt.  John 
Primm  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Langhead  Hansbrough. 

Primm   Excursus. 

The  Primms  of  Virginia  are  said  to  belong  to  the  ancient  French 
family  of  De  la  Pryme.  That  in  1725  Abraham  De  la  Pryme  removed 
from  France  and  settled  in  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  twenty-five  years  later 
his  son  John  emigrated  to  Virginia,  where  in  deference  to  the  then  ex- 
isting prejudice  against  French  names,  the  De  la  was  dropped  and  spell- 
ing changed  to  its  present  form.  This  John  Primm  had  four  sons, — 
William,  James,  Thomas,  and  John. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  365 

John  Primm,  born  in  Stafford  County,  Va.,  May  17,  1750,  died  in  St. 
Clair  County,  111.,  March  12,  1837,  where  he  had  moved  his  family  in  1803. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  an  officer  in  the  Virginia  troops  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  to  have  been  present  at  the  surrender  of  Yorktown  in  1781. 

Oct.  9,  1777,  he  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Langhead  Hansbrough,  born 
Jan.  5,  1761,  died  Nov.  25,  1832.  They  had  issue  seventeen  children:  Wil- 
liam, born  Sept.  14,  1778;  John,  born  July  25,  1783;  Thomas,  born  May  II, 
1782;  James,  born  Sept.  10,  1783;  Peter,  born  April  25,  1785,  married 
Marie  Angelique  Le  Roux  D*Esneval  of  St.  Louis,  and  was  the  father  of 
Judge  Wilson  Primm;  Daniel,  born  June  23,  1786;  Peggy,  born  Oct.  1, 
1787,  married  John  Starke,  Oct.  1,  1812,  and  lived  and  died  at  Springfield, 
Tenn. ;  Enoch,  born  Dec.  15,  1788;  Elijah,  born  March  8,  1790;  Silas,  born 
Jan.  6,  1792;  Elizabeth,  born  May  26,  1793;  Parmenas,  born  Oct.  26,  1794; 
Joseph,  born  Sept.  8,  1795;  Levi,  born  June  11,  1797;  Aram,  born  July 
28,  1799;  Lydia,  born  Jan.  31,  1801 ;  Mary,  born  July  31,  1804. 

John  Starke  and  his  wife  Margaret  Primm  had  issue : 

174.  James  Starke,  born  Jan  15,  1814. 

175.  Elizabeth  Starke,  born  Jan.  30,  1815. 

176.  Lydia  Starke,  born  April  14,  1816. 

177.  Joseph  Carter  Starke,  born  Dec.  30,  1817. 

178.  Louisa  Starke,  born  May  30,  1819. 

179.  Sarah  Anne  Starke,  born  Sept.  11,  1820. 

180.  Mary  M.  Starke,  born  Dec.  25,  1821. 

181.  Evelina  Starke,  born  April  18,  1823. 

182.  John  Primm  Starke,  born  Aug.  19,  1824. 

183.  Margaret  M.  Starke,  born  April  19,  1826,  died  July  28, 

i853- 

184.  Catharine  K.  Starke,  born  Jan.  16,  1828. 

Joseph  Carter  Starke  had  a  daughter  who  married  Mr.  William 
Clark  Breckenridge,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Phoenix  Plan- 
ing Mill  Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  and  died  in  1902,  leaving  one  daughter, 
Lamiza  Baird  Breckenridge.  Most  of  the  above  data  of  the 
Starke  and  Primm  families  was  furnished  bv  Mr.  Breckenridge. 

Jeremiah  Carter  Branch. 

4.  Jeremiah  Carter,  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann  Pines  Carter  of 
"Daleland,"  born  in  Lancaster  July  8,  1720,  died  in  Stafford  Feb. 
2,  1781.  His  Bible  records  show  that  he  was  married  to  Ann 
Harrison  Oct.  4,  1746.     She  was  born  Jan.  5,  1728,  and  died  March 


366       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

18,  1778,  and  may  have  been  a  daughter  of  Luel  and  Hannah  Har- 
rison (daughter  of  John  Footman,  Gent.)  of  Cople  Parish,  West- 
moreland County. 

Feb.  7,  1747,  Jeremiah  Carter,  Planter,  of  Cople  Parish,  West- 
moreland County,  mortgaged  to  Henry  Lee,  Esq.,  a  one  hundred 
acre  plantation  purchased  from  Luel  Harrison  and  Hannah  his 
wife,  daughter  of  "John  Footman,  Gent.,  Dec'd,"  adjoining  the 
plantation  of  Col.  Isaac  Allerton ;  five  negro  slaves;  12  head  of 
cattle ;  32  head  of  hogs ;  4  feather  beds  and  furniture,  a  dozen 
chairs,  a  desk,  and  two  oval  tables,  to  secure  the  payment  of  a  debt 
of  £103. 2s.  May  11,  1752,  Jeremiah  Carter  of  Stafford  County 
and  wife  Ann  sold  this  plantation  to  John  Crabb. 

May  10,  1755,  Jeremiah  Carter  and  brother  Joseph  Carter  of 
Stafford  petitioned  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  pay  for  taking  up 
a  runaway  slave. 

Jan.  10,  1757,  they  sold  to  Thomas  Newman  some  land  they 
owned  together. 

Feb.  6,  1756,  Jere  Carter,  Planter,  of  Overwharton  Parish,  Staf- 
ford, hired  three  negro  servants  to  Richard  Graham,  Merchant  of 
Dumfries,  for  one  year  for  £20. 

July  20,  1759,  "Joseph  Carter,  Gent.,"  of  White  Chapel  Parish, 
Lancaster,  deeded  a  negro  to  Anne  Carter,  daughter  of  his  son 
Jeremiah  Carter  of  Stafford,  and  in  his  will  probated  in  1765  left 
to  son  Jeremiah  400  acres  of  land  in  Stafford. 

The  old  Jeremiah  Carter  house  is  yet  standing  about  two  miles 
from  the  Stafford  Courthouse.  It  is  surrounded  by  some  fine  old 
trees  in  a  good  sized  yard  and  is  a  two-story  and  attic  frame  build- 
ing, and  formerly  had  a  two-story  wing  at  the  back,  as  shown  by 
the  doors  in  the  upper  and  lower  halls.  At  each  end  of  the  main 
building  is  a  huge  hewn  stone  chimney,  and  at  one  side  of  the 
yard  is  another  that  evidently  belonged  to  a  detached  kitchen.  Over 
the  front  and  back  hall  doors  are  beautifully  latticed  transoms.  A 
pre-nuptial  contract  recorded  in  1844,  shows  that  a  Jeremiah  Car- 
ter married  Elizabeth  Wamsley,  daughter  of  Benj.  C.  Wamsley. 
He  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  son  of  Jeremiah  Carter,  Sr.'s  son 
Joseph  who  was  living  in  Stafford  at  the  old  home  with  a  wife 
and  one  child  in  1785. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  367 

The  Carter  MSS.  in  speaking  of  Joseph  Carter  of  "Daleland" 
and  his  children,  says :  "Jeremiah  Carter  married  a  Miss  Harrison 
and  settled  in  Stafford.  About  thirty  years  ago  I  had  to  attend 
court  in  Stafford  and  stopped  for  a  night  with  a  Mr.  Jeremiah 
Carter  who  lived  at  a  nice  place  about  2  miles  from  the  C.  H.  He 
owned  a  good  plantation  and  a  good  many  servants.  Mr.  Carter 
told  me  that  his  place  was  settled  by  his  grandfather  Jeremiah 
Carter  from  Lancaster  County  about  1750,  and  showed  me  the  old 
gent's  Bible,  which  was  about  a  hundred  years  old  and  very 
curious  I  noted  down  in  my  pocket  book  some  of  the  dates  in  it. 
Jeremiah  Carter  born  8th  July,  1720.  Betsy  Ann  Harrison  was 
born  1 8th  Jan'y,  1728.  Jere  Carter  and  Ann  Harrison  was  mar- 
ried on  4th  Octo'r,  1746.  Jeremiah  Carter,  Sen.  departed  this 
life  Feb'y  2nd.,  1781.  Ann  Carter,  Sen.,  Departed  this  Life  18th 
March,  1778.  They  had  ten  children,  but  I  did  not  copy  their 
dates  in  full.  Jeremiah  1748,  Ann  1750,  Katharine  1753,  Henry 
1755,  Tabitha  1757,  Joseph  1759,  Robert  1761,  Benj'n  1763,  Wil- 
liam 1769.  Mr.  Carter  told  me  the  girls  never  married.  Some  of 
the  sons  died  young.  Jere  Jun.  married  a  Miss  Brent  and  left  no 
surviving  children.  Henry  went  to  a  western  county  and  married. 
Joseph  married  a  Miss  Sally  Edwards  and  were  my  host's  parents. 
William  married  a  Miss  Jenkins  and  moved  to  the  southern  part 
of  the  state  when  Mr.  Carter  was  a  boy.  Mr.  Carter  cared  little 
about  the  family  pedigree  and  knows  nothing  of  his  uncles'  fami- 
lies." 

185.  Jeremiah  Carter,  Jr.,  born  in  1748. 

186.  Anne  Carter,  born  in  1750,  died  unmarried  in  Stafford  in 
1791. 

187.  Catharine  Carter,  born  Jan.  28,1753,  was  living  unmarried 
in  1 791. 

188.  Henry  Carter,  born  in  Sept.,  1755,  probably  Henry  of  Fair- 
fax in  1782. 

189.  Tabitha  Carter,  born  Dec.  11,  1757,  died  unmarried. 

190.  Joseph  Carter,  born  in  1759,  had  a  son  Jeremiah,  living  in 
1828. 

191.  Robert  Carter,  born  in  1761.     No  other  data. 


368       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

192.  Benjamin  Carter,  living  in  1790  when  he  was  summoned 
to  court. 

193.  William  Carter,  born  in  1769,  died  in  Logan  Co.,  Ohio,  in 

1833-  (?) 

193.  William  Carter,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Anne  Harrison 
Carter,  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  William  Carter,  who  appeared 
in  Bedford  County,  Va.,  prior  to  1800,  and  from  thence  removed 
to  Logan  County,  Ohio,  in  1830,  where  he  died  in  1833,  though 
William  Carter  of  Bedford  may  have  been  a  son  of  John  Carter 
of  that  county,  who  was  a  son  of  John  and  Mary  Butler  Carter 
of  Stafford.  The  evidence  is  only  circumstantial,  but  points 
strongly  to  a  Jeremiah  Carter  origin.     It  is  as  follows : 

Jeremiah  Carter  of  Stafford  had  a  son  William,  born  in  1769, 
who  married  a  Miss  Jenkins  and  removed  to  the  southern  part  of 
the  state.     This  Wm.  Carter  had  a  sister  and  aunt  named  Tabitha. 

William  Carter,  who  died  in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  in  1833,  was 
born  about  1769-70.  He  had  a  son  Jenkins,  born  in  Bedford 
County  about  1794,  and  a  daughter  Tabitha  born  about  1798.  The 
only  wife  of  Wm.  Carter  of  Bedford  County  known  to  his  de- 
scendants was  named  Mary  Wade,  and  some  branches  of  their 
descendants  knew  nothing  of  a  son  Jenkins.  It  is  thought  that 
probably  Wm.  Carter  was  married  twice,  and  that  the  first  wife, 
Miss  Jenkins,  had  but  one  or  two  children,  and  as  Jenkins  Carter 
went  to  Louisiana,  where  he  died  in  1832,  he  was  lost  sight  of  by 
his  half  brothers  and  sisters  in  Ohio. 

William  Carter  of  Bedford  County  married  (2?)  Mary  Wade, 
of  French  descent,  born  about  1768,  died  in  1848  in  Logan  county, 
Ohio.  He  was  a  millwright  by  trade  as  well  as  a  farmer,  and  in 
the  summer  of  1832  removed  with  his  family  and  the  families  of 
his  married  children  to  Logan  County,  Ohio,  where  he  purchased 
land  near  the  town  of  Rushylvania. 

He  gave  the  land  for  the  Rushylvania  cemetery  and  was  the 
first  person  buried  in  it,  as  he  died  in  the  early  spring  of  1833. 

A  tradition  in  the  family  says  that  Mary  Wade's  parents  were 
people  of  considerable  means,  and  when  she  married  Wm.  Carter 
they  gave  her  a  servant  woman,  but  Wm.  Carter  having  puritanical 
ideas,  freed  her.     Later  Mary's  parents  feeling  sorry  for  her  with 


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increasing  family  and  duties  gave  her  another  servant  girl,  who 
was  also  freed  by  William  Carter.  This  incensed  the  Wades  so 
that  they  disinherited  their  daughter  and  refused  to  have  any- 
thing more  to  do  with  her  husband.  This  rift  between  the  two 
families  and  his  hatred  of  slavery  decided  Wm.  Carter  to  emigrate 
to  Ohio,  but  he  had  considerable  difficulty  in  persuading  his  mar- 
ried children  to  leave  the  blue  hills  and  beautiful  valleys  of  Bed- 
ford for  the  level  prairies  of  Ohio.  Mary  Wade  is  said  to  have 
shared  her  husband's  abolition  ideas,  and  to  have  been  a  devout 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  William  Carter  had  issue  as 
follows : 

194.  Jenkins  Carter,  born  circa  1795,  was  a  Methodist  Minister 
and  died  in  Louisiana  prior  to  1832. 

195.  Lucy  Carter,  born  about  1796. 

196.  Tabitha  Carter,  born  in  1798. 

197.  William  Carter,  born  July  28,  1800,  died  in  1850. 

198.  Robert  Stewart  Carter,  born  July  28,  1800,  died  Feb.  12, 
1842. 

199.  Joseph  Carter,  was  a  manufacturer  of  fine  hats  in  Phila- 
delphia when  last  heard  of. 

200.  Benjamin  Carter. 

201.  Charlotte  Carter. 

202.  Margaret  Carter. 

203.  Edward  L.  Carter. 

204.  Sarah  Otey  Carter. 

205.  Elizabeth  Carter. 

195.  Lucy  Carter,  married  Nathan  Bales  in  Virginia  and  re- 
moved to  Logan  County,  Ohio,  in  1832.  They  had  issue:  John; 
Tabitha,  married  a  Zimmerman ;  Margaret,  married  an  Archer ; 
Beryl ;  Jenkins  ;  and  Sarah. 

196.  Tabitha  Carter,  married  Nov.  25,  1816,  in  Bedford 
County  John  Watson,  Jr.,  by  Rev.  Josiah  Morton.  They  removed 
to  Ohio  in  1832,  and  are  buried  at  Rushylvania.  They  had  issue : 
Mary ;  William ;  and  Maria.  Fulton  Hughes,  a  grandson  of 
Tabitha  Carter  Watson,  lives  at  Ridgeway.  Ohio. 


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197.  William  Carter  (twin  of  R.  S.  C),  married  Rebecca 
Palmer  in  Virginia  and  removed  to  Ohio  in  1832  and  later  to 
Arkansas,  where  he  died  in  1850,  after  which  his  family  returned 
to  Logan  County.     They  had  issue : 

I.  John  W.  Carter. 

II.  Caroline  Carter. 

III.  Charles  E.  Carter. 

IV.  Tabitha  Carter,  married  Robert  Henderson. 

V.  Susan  Carter,  married  Michael  Stewart  and  live  in  Urbana, 
111.  They  have  issue:  Annabelle,  married  Charles  Freeman;  Lil- 
lie ;  Charles ;  Cora,  married  Frank  Haltman ;  Nora,  married  a  Mr. 
Dunn ;  and  Osie,  married  a  Mr.  Dunn. 

VI.  Matthew  Carter. 

VII.  Martin  Carter,  married  Eva  Cary,  and  lives  at  Urbana,  111. 
Has  issue :  William  ;  Bessie ;  Ella  ;  and  Fay. 

VIII.  Mary  Carter,  married  Peter  Funk  and  lives  at  Bellfon- 
taine,  Ohio.  They  have  issue :  Charles,  married  Anna  Freeman ; 
Alice ;  Arthur,  married  Minnie  Neer ;  Emma,  married  James 
Niven ;  and  Fred. 

IX.  Anna  Carter,  married  Benjamin  Meredith  and  had  issue : 
Jonah,  married  Effie  Emery ;  Rebecca ;  Owen,  married  Lena  Dick- 
inson ;  Esther,  married  Harry  Jamison. 

X.  William  Carter,  Jr.,  married  Ella  Buckley  and  had  issue : 
John,  Cleo,  Giles,  Mary,  Marion  and  Robert.  All  live  at  Bellfon- 
taine. 

198.  Robert  Stewart  Carter.  As  the  data  of  this  branch  of 
the  faily  is  so  much  more  extensive  than  of  any  of  the  others,  it 
will  be  given  last. 

200.  Benjamin  Carter  removed  to  Rushylvania  with  his  father 
and  was  one  of  the  first  merchants  of  that  place.  About  1856  he 
removed  his  family  to  Greenup,  111. 

201.  Charlotte  Carter,  married  July  29,  1829,  Henry  Grisson 
in  Bedford  Co.,  Va.,  and  removed  to  Ohio  in  1832,  and  later  re- 
moved to  Illinois,  where  her  descendants  live. 

202.  Margaret  Carter,  married  Robert  Elliott  of  Ohio,  and 


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had  issue :  Martha,  Lucy,  married  a  Mr.  Andrews,  and  two  sons. 
All  of  Logan  County. 

203.  Edward  L.  Carter,  born  in  Virginia,  died  in  i860  in 
Logan  Co.,  Ohio.  He  was  a  farmer,  teacher  and  lawyer.  Mar- 
ried Betsy  Sutherland  and  had  issue : 

I.  Cynthia  Anne  Carter,  married  Wm.  Long. 

II.  Henry  Milton  Carter,  married  Anne  Mullen,  and  had  issue: 
Minnie,  married  Wesley  Peterson  of  Bellfontaine,  Ohio;  and 
Leora,  married  E.  Dodson,  a  lumberman  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 

III.  Tabitha  Carter,  married  Michael  Long. 

IV.  John  Carter  lives  with  his  brother,  Edward  L.  Carter,  Jr., 
in  Sacramento,  Cal. 

V.  Edward  L.  Carter,  married  Charlotte  Davis  and  had  issue : 
Frank  and  William. 

VI.  Harvey  Sutherland  Carter,  married  Margaret  Myers  and 
lives  at  Bellfontaine,  Ohio.     Has  issue :  George,  Ethel,  Clara. 

VII.  Lillian  Carter,  died  in  early  girlhood. 

204.  Sarah  Otey  Carter,  born  Feb.  10,  1812,  was  well  edu- 
cated and  for  a  number  of  years  a  teacher.  She  married  George 
W.  Kearnes  in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  about  1842,  and  died  Aug.  1, 
1880.     They  had  issue  : 

I.  Jacob  D.  Kearnes,  born  Feb.  9,  1845. 

II.  Sarah  Jane  Kearnes,  born  July  16,  1846. 

III.  Robert  Kearnes,  born  July  9,  1848. 

IV.  Daniel  Kearnes,  born  in  1850. 

V.  George  Kearnes,  born  in  1852. 

II.  Sarah  Jane  Kearnes,  married  in  March,  1874,  Lee  Winner 
and  lives  at  West  Mansfield,  Ohio.  They  have  issue :  Ree 
Kearnes  Winner,  born  Feb.  28,  1875,  married  a  Mr.  Hill;  and 
Glee  H.  Winner,  born  Aug.  22,  1882,  married  a  Mr.  Brewer. 

I  am  indebted  to  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Winner  and  Dr.  Blanche  M. 
Haines  for  the  data  given  of  the  Carters  of  Bedford  County,  Va., 
and  Logan  County,  Ohio. 

205.  Elizabeth  Carter,  born  in  Bedford  County,  Va.,  died  at 
Rushylvania,  Ohio.     Married  Richard  Thompson  and  had  issue : 

I.  Hugh  Alexander  Thompson. 


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II.  Edmund  Thompson,  married  and  had  issue:  Mary,  and 
Edmund,  Jr. 

III.  Nicholas  Thompson,  married  and  had  issue :  Anna  and 
Hattie. 

Hugh  Alexander  Thompson,  married  March  25,  1859,  Ellen 
Painter  and  had  issue :  Edmund  P.,  Alfred  R.,  Elizabeth,  married 
Geo.  Sells,  and  Robert  L.  Thompson. 

198.  Robert  Stewart  Carter,  twin  of  William,  born  July  28, 
1800,  in  Bedford  County,  Va.,  died  in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  Feb. 
12,  1842.  He  was  a  teacher  and  farmer,  and  he  and  his  children 
have  been  identified  with  the  pioneer  life  and  development  of  the 
richest  lands  of  Ohio,  Illinois,  Iowa  and  Nebraska.  "Untimely 
graves  mark  the  progress  of  these  early  pioneers."  Oct.  25,  1825, 
he  was  married  in  Bedford  County  to  Evaline  Ellis  Cheatwood, 
born  April  24,  1804,  died  June  10,  188 1,  at  Hamburg,  la.,  daughter 
of  William  and  Nancy  (Cottrell)  Cheatwood,  and  through  her 
mother  possessed  Huguenot  blood.  "She  was  a  woman  of  much 
force  of  character  and  high  ideals.  Her  sons-in-law  have  borne 
testimony  to  her  excellence."     They  had  issue : 

206.  George  Washington  Carter,  born  Aug.  25,  1826,  died  April 
14,  1891. 

207.  Elizabeth  Jane  Carter,  born  April  15,  1829,  died  at  the 
age  of  7. 

208.  Mary  Anne  Carter,  born  April  21,  1831,  died  Dec.  26,  1900. 

209.  James  Madison  Carter,  born  June  27,  1833,  died  Mar.  25, 
1 901. 

210.  Robert  Trent  Carter,  born  Aug.  23,  1835,  died  April  30, 
1864. 

211.  Martha  Louisa  Carter,  born  Mar.  3,  1838,  died  Nov.  8, 
1871. 

212.  Anne  Eliza  Carter,  born  April  18,  1840,  died  Mar.  14,  1869. 

213.  John  Edward  Carter,  born  Mar.  8,  1842,  died  Sept.  26, 
1882. 

206.  George  W.  Carter,  married  March  27,  185 1,  at  Gallipolis, 
Ohio,  Mary  Evans,  born  in  Wales  Dec.  19,  1835,  died  Feb.  16, 
1909,  at  York,  Neb.     They  had  issue: 


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I.  Sarah  Anne  Carter,  born  July  25,  1852,  died  Oct.  11,  1853. 

II.  Emma  Isadora  Carter,  born  Sept.  7,  1854,  married  Oscar 
R.  Jones  and  lives  at  York,  Nebraska.     No  issue. 

III.  Louie  C.  Carter,  born  May  14,  1857,  married  Dec.  25,  1887, 
Paris  Conlee  of  Ft.  Madison,  Iowa,  and  has  a  daughter  Mabel, 
who  married  a  Mr.  Falk. 

IV.  Eva  R.  Carter,  born  March  25,  1865,  married  Aug.  6,  1887, 
J.  O.  Sprague,  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  and  had  issue  :  Orion,  Earl,  Emma, 
and  Lillian. 

V.  John  V.  Carter,  born  Aug.  4,  1869,  married  Belle  Kern  and 
lives  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa.  They  have  issue :  Roland,  Mildred, 
Clifford. 

208.  Mary  Anne  Carter,  married  May  20,  1847,  Jacob  Cot- 
trell  at  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  and  had  issue : 

I.  Cecelia  Cottrell,  born  Feb.  3,  1849,  died  Nov.  18,  185 1. 

II.  Rocetha  Cottrell,  born  June  10,  185 1,  died  July  5,  1902,  at 
York,  Nebraska.  Married  March  11,  1871,  Oscar  R.  Jones,  who 
after  her  death  married  her  cousin  Emma  Carter.  They  had  is- 
sue :  Orville,  Bertha  C,  and  Lloyd.  Orville  Jones  has  two  daugh- 
ters, Roetha  and  Ruth.  Bertha  Jones  married  a  Mr.  Stayley  and 
has  issue :  Winifred,  Elroy,  Edison,  and  Oscar.  Lloyd  Jones  is  a 
graduate  and  former  instructor  of  the  University  of  Nebraska,  and 
is  now  connected  with  the  Bureau  of  Standards  at  Washington. 

III.  Truman  Cottrell,  born  Aug.  11,  1854,  married  Mar.  31, 
1 88 1,  Anne  Caplinger  and  lives  now  at  the  old  Caplinger  home- 
stead in  Taylor  Co.,  Iowa.  They  had  issue :  James  Cottrell,  mar- 
ried Lula  Beach  in  1906. 

IV.  Robert  Ancil  Cottrell,  born  July  11,  1865,  lives  at  Des 
Moines,  Iowa. 

V.  Frank  Lloyd  Cottrell,  born  Feb.  23,  1868,  lives  near  York, 
Nebraska,  on  a  farm.     Has  two  children,  Lloyd  and  Lois. 

VI.  Ellsworth  Moore  Cottrell,  born  Aug.  10,  1871. 

209.  James  Madison  Carter,  married  May  17,  1876,  Elizabeth 
Gelvin  and  had  issue:  Robert  N.,  born  1884,  died  in  1907;  Dora 
B.,  born  in  1882,  married  John  L.  Carr  and  died  in  1910 ;  Anna  E., 
born  in  1886,  married  in  1908  Edwin  Gilder  of  Omaha ;  and  Ethel 


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S.  Carter,  born  in  1892,  married  in  191 1  Frank  Reeves  of  York, 
Nebraska. 

210.  Robert  Trent  Carter,  enlisted  at  the  beginning  of  the 
war  in  Co.  H,  119th  111.  Vols.,  and  died  at  the  siege  of  Vicksburg, 
Miss.,  April  30,  1864.     He  was  unmarried. 

211.  Martha  L.  Carter,  was  educated  at  private  schools  at 
Elm  wood  and  Prairie  City,  111.,  and  later  taught  for  a  number  of 
years  in  several  different  counties  in  Illinois.  She  was  married 
Oct.  4,  1870,  to  Dr.  George  R.  Moore,  whose  first  wife  was  her 
sister  Anne  Eliza  Carter,  and  died  thirteen  months  later  of  tuber- 
culosis at  Lincoln,  Neb.,  whither  they  had  gone  for  her  health. 

212.  Anne  Eliza  Carter,  born  in  Logan  County,  Ohio,  April 
18,  1840,  died  at  Blandinsville,  111.,  March  14,  1869.  She  was 
married  Sept.  8,  1859,  at  Fulton,  111.,  to  Dr.  George  R.  Moore, 
born  Feb.  19,  1835,  in  Chester  Co.,  Pa.,  died  Dec.  21,  1910,  at 
Clarkson  Hospital,  Omaha,  Neb.  She  was  educated  at  Elmwood, 
111.,  and  taught  school  in  Fulton  and  McDonough  Counties.  She 
was  small  of  stature,  dainty  and  graceful,  and  a  friend  says:  "She 
reminded  her  of  a  bird  in  the  swiftness  and  grace  of  her  move- 
ments ;  that  her  manners  were  polished,  and  that  she  possessed 
unusual  natural  courtesy,  high  ideals,  and  abundant  good  sense." 
She  is  buried  at  Bushnell,  111.,  where  her  husband  and  sister  lie 
beside  her. 

Dr.  Moore  was  a  son  of  Sharpless  and  Rachel  Roberts  Moore, 
and  a  descendant  of  old  Quaker  families  near  Philadelphia,  who 
had  come  to  Pennsylvania  with  Penn  and  Logan.  Among  them 
were  the  Roberts,  Doyles,  Sharpless,  Watsons,  Kinseys  and  Fells. 
He  was  educated  at  Ercildoun  Academy,  Pa.,  and  had  a  course  of 
lectures  at  Jefferson  Medical  College.  In  1857  he  removed  to 
Illinois,  but  did  not  practice  medicine  there,  instead  was  a  mer- 
chant and  teacher.  In  1880  he  settled  at  Oxford  Junction,  Iowa, 
where  he  practiced  medicine  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  the 
Division  Surgeon  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  R.  R. 
They  had  issue  one  daughter: 

Blanche  Moore,  born  Dec.  21,  1865,  in  New  Castle  County, 
Delaware.     She  was  graduated  from  the  Woman's  Hospital  Medi- 


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cal  College  of  Chicago  in  1886.  Served  as  interne  in  the  Mary 
Thompson  Hospital  of  Chicago  in  1887.  She  married  May  15, 
1890,  Dr.  Thomas  J.  Haines,  born  June  5,  1853,  in  Logan  County, 
Ohio,  son  of  John  Hunter  and  Lydia  Hole  Haines. 

Dr.  T.  J.  Haines  is  a  graduate  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  Chicago,  and  was  interne  at  Cook  Co.  Hospital  in  1889. 
They  are  members  of  several  medical  societies,  and  live  at  Three 
Rivers,  Michigan.     Xo  issue. 

213.  John  Edward  Carter,  born  March  12,  1842,  in  Shelby 
Co.,  Ohio,  died  Sept.  26,  1882,  at  York,  Neb.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  war  he  enlisted  in  Co.  H,  119th  111.  Vols.,  and  served  until 
Aug.  26,  1865,  participating  in  six  battles ;  under  date  of  Nov.  20, 
1864,  he  wrote  his  sister  Anna,  saying:  "Since  the  26th  of  Jan- 
uary we  have  marched  nineteen  hundred  miles,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  thousands  of  miles  we  have  traveled  by  river  and  railroad.  .  . 
Those  who  read  the  history  of  this  war  will  see  that  we  have  done 
more  marching  than  any  other  troops  in  the  service,  since  Jan. 
26th."  After  the  war  he  removed  to  the  west  and  built  the  first 
house  in  Lincoln,  Nebraska.  He  was  of  a  lively  disposition  and 
fond  of  a  joke.  Sept.  26,  1867,  he  married  Martha  E.  Eastin, 
born  June  17,  1849,  *n  Kentucky,  burned  to  death  at  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  Dec.  4,  1909.     They  had  issue  one  son: 

Robert  Ellsworth  Carter,  born  March  18,  1869,  at  Bardolph,  111. 
Married  April  15,  1906,  Ardella  S.  Storm.  He  is  president  of  the 
Beacon  Light  Co.,  of  Los  Angeles,  California. 


Addenda 
Some  Virginia  Carters  in  the  Revolution 

Since  the  MSS.  of  the  first  part  of  this  book  was  sent  to  the 
printer,  the  Roster  of  the  Virginia  Soldiers  in  the  Revolution,  men- 
tioned in  the  Preface,  has  been  issued  by  the  Virginia  State 
Library.  This  valuable  list  contains  the  names  of  more  than 
thirty-five  thousand  Virginia  soldiers  and  sailors  who  saw  service 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  is  compiled  from  all  the  known 
sources  available  to  the  compilers ;  the  United  States  Government 
having  refused  the  State  the  privilege  of  copying  the  rolls  and 
other  records  of  Virginia  soldiers,  preserved  at  Washington. 

There  are  one  hundred  and  ninety-three  entries  in  the  name  of 
Carter,  under  thirty-nine  different  baptismal  names.  Some  of  the 
entries  taken  from  different  sources  were  known  to  refer  to  the 
same  person ;  others  gave  no  means  of  distinguishing  between  dif- 
ferent men  of  the  same  name ;  but  allowing  for  these  duplicate  re- 
cords, there  was  probably  not  less  than  a  hundred  Virginia  Carters 
in  the  Revolution,  as  shown  by  this  roster.  The  commoner  bap- 
tismal names  being  represented  by  several  different  men  under 
each,  as  for  example  in  one  list  that  I  examind  I  found  three 
separate  Henry  Carters. 

If  your  ancestor's  name  appears  among  those  given  below,  you 
may  obtain,  for  a  reasonable  fee,  a  certified  copy  of  record  of 
service  either  from  the  Virginia  State  Librarian,  or  Mr.  W.  G. 
Standard,  Secretary  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  Richmond, 
Va.  If  your  revolutionary  ancestor  does  not  appear  in  this  list, 
you  may  be  able  to  find  some  record  of  his  service  in  the  Pension 
Office  or  War  Department,  Washington,  D.  C. 

In  the  case  of  those  who  petitioned  the  Legislature  for  a  pen- 
sion or  settlement  of  their  claim,  the  county  of  their  residence  is 
shown.  I  will  give  their  names  and  county  without  giving  the 
number  of  times  each  appears  in  the  records.  In  the  case  of  the 
others,  where  there  is  no  marks  of  identification  I  give  the  number 


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of  different  records  in  which  that  name  appears,  which  in  regard 
to  some  of  the  commoner  names  probably  means  there  were  nearly 
that  many  different  men  of  the  same  name. 

Carter  Names  Appearing  in  the  Virginia  List. 

Carter,  Charles,  of  Goochland  Co.,  1792. 

Carter,  George,  of  "Shirley,"  iyyg-^o. 

Carter,  Halsey,  of  Buckingham  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  James,  of  Northampton  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  James  M.,  of  Mecklenburg  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  Jesse,  of  Buckingham  Co.,  1795. 

Carter,  John,  of  Bedford  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  John,  of  Caroline  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  John,  of  Halifax  Co.,  1781. 

Carter,  John,  of  Cabell  Co.,  1828. 

Carter,  Joseph,  of  Norfolk  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  Poval,  Prince  Edward  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  Samuel,  of  Prince  Edward  Co. 

Carter,  Thomas,  of  Lancaster  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  Thomas,  of  Shenandoah  Co.,  1838. 

Carter,  Thomas  (Assistant  Surgeon),  Brunswick  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  Thomas  (Surgeon). 

Carter,  William  (Surgeon),  James  City  Co.,  1791. 

Carter,  William,  of  King  William  Co.,  i779-'8o. 

Carter,  William,  of  Henrico. 

Carter,  William,  of  Patrick  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  William,  of  Monroe  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  William,  2nd.,  of  Patrick  Co.,  1835. 

Carter,  Abednego. 

Carter,  Barnabas  (3). 

Carter,  Caleb. 

Carter,  Dale  (2). 

Carter,  David. 

Carter,  Francis  (Navy). 

Carter,  Henry  (9). 

Carter,  J.  C.  (barrack  m.) 


3;8       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

Carter,  Capt.  John  (probably  Capt.  John  of  Caroline-Spotsyl- 
vania). 

Carter,  John  (19). 

Carter,  Armistead  (2). 

Carter,  Benjamin. 

Carter,  Charles,  Col. 

Carter,  Charles,  private. 

Carter,  Edward. 

Carter,  George  (Navy). 

Carter,  Huddleston. 

Carter,  Hudilsee. 

Carter,  Capt.  John  Champe  (of  the  "King  Carter"  family). 

Carter,  John  Jarret  (barrack  m.). 

Carter,  John,  Navy  (7). 

Carter,  Jesse  (of  Pittsylvania;  died  in  Caswell  Co.,  N.  C,  in 
1816). 

Carter,  Job  (probably  of  Amherst). 

Carter,  Lt.  Lemuel. 

Carter,  Mesh. 

Carter,  Obediah   (4). 

Carter,  Phillip  (3). 
I  Carter,  Robert  (5). 

Carter,  Towns. 

Carter,  Capt.  William. 

Carter,  William  (18). 

Carter,  James  (4). 

Carter,  Joseph,  (6). 

Carter,  Landon. 

Carter,  Levy. 

Carter,  Nicholas  (3). 

Carter,  Peter. 

Carter,  Richard  (3). 

Carter,  Samuel  (2). 

Carter,  Thomas  (Cornet). 

Carter,  Thomas  (10). 

Carter,  William  P. 

In  the  list  of  Revolutionary  war  soldiers  published  by  Mr.  Wm. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  379 

Armstrong  Crozier  in  the  Virginia  Records  Quarterly,  I  notice 
two  not  given  in  the  Virginia  State  Library  list,  viz. :  John  Carter, 
Dec'd,  Richard  Carter,  heir  at  law,  Nov.  4,  1784,  Sergeant  Conti- 
nental Line  3  years ;  and  Hy.  Carter,  private  Continental  Line  for 
3  years. 

A  Partial  List  of  Virginia  Carters  in  Service  in  the 
War  of  1812. 

The  following  names  were  noted  in  a  hurried  search  through  a 
volume  of  Militia  Rolls  of  the  War  of  1812  published  by  the 
State  of  Virginia.  A  careful  search  would  probably  disclose 
other  Carter  names.  Those  familiar  with  the  old  militia  organi- 
zation may  be  able  to  give  the  names  of  the  counties  by  the  num- 
bers of  the  regiments  given.  The  volume,  which  was  published 
in  1852,  gives  the  length  of  service,  certificates  of  which  probably 
can  be  obtained  from  the  State  Librarian  or  Mr.  Stanard  for  a 
reasonable  fee. 

92nd  Regiment,  Lancaster  County. — Nine  Carters,  as  follows : 
Raleigh,  John,  Humphrey,  Nicholas,  Charles,  George,  George  (in 
Capt.  Kirk's  Co.),  Thomas  (Capt.  Brent's  Co.),  Thomas  (Capt. 
Kirk's  Co.). 

30th  Regiment,  Caroline  County. — Seven  Carters,  as  follows : 
James,  James  B.,  Vicman,  Joseph,  Spencer  M.,  Philip,  and  Charles. 

33rd  Regiment,  Henrico  County. — Six  Carters,  all  of  whom 
probably  belonged  ot  the  Giles  Carter  family:  Moses,  Charles  G., 
William,  Theodorick,  Dandridge,  and  Joseph  G. 

Carter's  Cavalry,  Pittsylvania  County. — Capt.  Edward  Carter, 
Serg.  Rawley  W.  Carter,  Serg.  Christopher  L.  Carter  and  Private 
Jesse  Carter,  all  sons  of  Thomas  Carter  of  "Greenrock." 

69th  Regiment,  Halifax  County. — Theodorick  Carter. 

64th  Regiment,  Henry  County. — Walker  Carter. 

22nd  Regiment,  Mecklenburg  County. — John  P.  Carter  and 
Little  B.  Carter. 

The  following  regiments  have  no  county  given : 

4th  Regiment. — Robert  W.  Carter,  Zachary  Carter. 

6th  Regiment. — John  Carter. 

nth  Regiment. — Francis  Carter. 


380       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

1 6th  Regiment. — Seven  Carters,  as  follows  :  Adcock,  James,  Sr., 
James,  Jr.,  John,  Corp.  John  S.,  Thomas,  and  William. 

19th  Regiment. — Four  Carters,  as  follows :  Charles,  John,  Jo- 
seph, and  two  Georges. 

25th  Regiment. — Lewis  Carter. 

36th  Regiment. — James,  David,  and  William  Carter,  each  name 
appearing  twice. 

37th  Regiment. — James  R.  Carter. 

41st  Regiment. — Daniel  Carter. 

52nd  Regiment. — Edward  Carter. 

65th  Regiment. — Stephen  Carter. 

71st  Regiment. — William  and  Champion  Carter. 

74th  Regiment. — Thomas  Carter. 

1 10th  Regiment. — Phillip  Carter. 

1  nth  Regiment. — John  and  Abner  Carter. 

115th  Regiment,  Warwick  County. — Thomas  C.  Carter. 

Capt.  Robert  Carter's  Troop  of  Cavalry. — Capt.  Robert  W.  Car- 
ter and  Lt.  David  L.  M.  Carter. 


The  Davis  Family  of  Wilkinson  County, 
Mississippi 

Since  the  MSS.  of  the  Carter  genealogy  was  sent  to  the  printer, 
data  has  been  received  of  two  Davis  families  that  settled  in  Mis- 
sissippi from  Kentucky  in  the  first  quarter  of  last  century,  said 
to  have  been  from  Todd  or  Christian  County,  Kentucky,  but  the 
records  of  these  counties  fail  to  show  any  mention  of  them.  Cir- 
cumstantial evidence  indicates  strongly  that  one  of  them  was  a 
branch  of  the  Davis  family  of  "Broadfield,"  Spotsylvania  County, 
Virginia,  and  the  other  a  near  connection  of  that  family. 

Samuel  Davis,  father  of  President  Jefferson  Davis,  removed 
with  his  large  family  from  Christian  County,  Kentucky,  to  the 
same  county  in  Mississippi  as  the  others,  and  about  the  same  time, 
which  probably  accounts  for  the  idea  that  all  three  came  from  the 
same  county  in  Kentucky.  Like  other  branches  of  the  "Broad- 
field"  family,  the  Mississippi  Davises  have  a  "tradition"  of  very 
distant  kinship  to  the  Confederate  President ;  but  as  no  records 
have  been  found  that  even  remotely  indicate  it,  and  those  who 
have  the  traditions  cannot  give  the  slightest  suggestion  of  the 
connecting  link,  no  credence  has  been  given  to  the  idea  of  the  two 
families  being  connected. 

The  other  families  were  those  of  Fielding  Davis,  Sr.,  supposed 
to  have  been  the  son  of  James  Davis,  Jr.,  of  "Broadfield,"  (See 
Davis  family  elsewhere  in  this  book.)  and  Austen  Jeter  Davis, 
whom  his  granddaughter  says  was  a  distant  cousin  of  the  Fielding 
Davis  family.  Mrs.  Annie  H.  Hamilton,  San  Antonio,  Texas  (a 
grand-niece  of  Mrs.  Austen  J.  Davis)  thinks  that  the  heads  of  the 
two  families  were  first  cousins,  but  Mrs.  Susan  Hampton  Davis 
Holly,  Brunswick  Landing,  Miss,  (granddaughter  of  Austen  J. 
Davis),  is  most  probably  correct  and  the  two  families  were  more 
remotely  connected.  She  owns  the  old  Bible  of  her  branch  of  the 
Davis  family,  but  as  she  is  away  from  home  for  the  summer  its 
data  cannot  be  obtained  until  too  late  for  this  publication.     The 


3g2       GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

family  Bible  and  other  papers  of  the  Fielding  Davis  family  were 
most  unfortunately  destroyed  in  the  burning  of  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Mary  Davis  Loving  in  the  seventies. 

Upon  their  removal  from  Kentucky  the  Austen  Jeter  Davis 
family  settled  in  Wilkinson  County,  Miss.,  while  the  Fielding 
Davis  family  settled  in  another  county,  which  has  not  yet  been 
located ;  however,  Col.  Fielding  Davis,  Jr.,  in  1824  purchased  land 
and  also  settled  in  Wilkinson  county,  where  a  year  later  he  mar- 
ried his  distant  cousin,  Mary  A.  Davis,  daughter  of  Austen  Jeter 
Davis  and  his  wife  Susannah  Hampton  Davis.  Mrs.  Ida  Loving 
Turner,  a  granddaughter  of  Col.  Fielding  Davis,  has  collected 
from  various  sources  the  data  upon  which  the  following  account 
of  him  is  based: 

The  connection  of  the  Fielding  Davis  family  of  Mississippi  with 
that  of  James  Davis,  Jr.,  of  "Broadfield,"  is  summed  up  as  follows  : 

1st.  The  Mississippi  Davises  have  a  tradition  of  Virginia  origin 
with  a  sojourn  of  a  few  years  in  Kentucky.  The  Woodford 
County,  Ky.,  descendants  of  Thomas  Davis,  who  went  from 
"Broadfield"  to  Kentucky  in  1788,  say  that  the  sons  of  his  brother 
James  Davis,  Jr.,  of  "Broadfield,"  also  removed  to  Kentucky  after 
the  death  of  their  father  in  1792,  and  a  letter  from  Polly  Davis, 
sister  of  Thomas  and  James,  written  in  1790,  says  that  her  brother 
James  and  his  sons  were  thinking  strongly  of  removing  to  Ken- 
tucky. The  Spotsylvania  records  show  that  they  did  remove  from 
that  county  after  the  death  of  James  Davis  in  1792,  who  had  a  son 
Fielding  of  about  the  same  age  that  the  head  of  the  Mississippi 
family  must  have  been. 

2nd.  The  baptismal  name  of  Fielding  has  been  a  favorite  in  the 
Mississippi  family  just  as  it  has  been  in  all  the  branches  of  the 
"Broadfield"  Davis  family  of  which  we  have  data.  It  came  into 
the  Davis  family  through  the  marriage  of  Thomas  Davis  and 
Sarah  Fielding,  the  parents  of  James  Davis,  Sr.,  of  "Broadfield," 
in  1 71 7,  and  has  been  much  thought  of  as  a  name  for  the  sons 
since  then.  So  far  as  my  observations  go  of  other  Davis  families 
to  be  found  in  the  Virginia  County  records,  and  they  are  pretty 
nearly  as  numerous  as  the  ubiquitous  Smith,  the  name  Fielding 
has  never  been  used  by  any  other  Davis  family. 


Mrs.  Mary  Davis  Loving, 
Col.  Fielding  Davis. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  383 

3rd.  There  is  a  most  striking  resemblance  between  different 
members  of  the  Mississippi  Davis  family  and  those  of  Woodford 
County,  Kentucky ;  notably  between  Col.  Fielding  Davis  of  Wilk- 
inson County,  Miss.,  and  Thos.  Jelf  of  Woodford  County,  Ky., 
whose  grandfathers  were  brothers  if  the  families  were  connected, 
as  is  believed.  The  strong  resemblance  not  only  of  their  separate 
features,  but  also  of  the  expression  of  their  entire  faces,  may  be 
seen  by  comparing  the  reproductions  of  old  daguerotypes  of  them. 
And  descriptions  of  the  mental  and  social  peculiarities  and  char- 
acteristics of  the  two  families  as  given  by  aged  members  of  each 
show  the  same  striking  similarity  as  do  their  features. 

The  Austen  Jeter  Davis  Family. 

This  family  does  not  properly  belong  in  a  genealogy  of  the 
Carter  family,  but  owing  to  its  close  connection  with  the  Fielding 
Davis  family  of  Mississippi,  which  is  supposed  to  be  descended 
from  Mary  Elizabeth  Carter  Davis  of  "Broadfield,"  Spotsylvania 
County,  Va.,  some  notice  of  it  is  given. 

Soon  after  settling  in  Wilkinson  County,  Austen  Jeter  Davis 
married  Susannah  Hampton,  daughter  of  Col.  Henry  Hampton, 
who  had  settled  in  that  county  from  South  Carolina.  He  was  an 
officer  in  the  Revolution,  son  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  Preston 
Hampton,  and  grandson  of  John  and  Margaret  Wade  Hampton, 
of  Fairfax  County,  Virginia. 

One  of  the  Polly  Davis  letters  mentions  that  her  nephew,  the 
eldest  son  of  her  brother  Benjamin,  had  married  in  1790  a  Miss 
Hampton,  daughter  of  John  Hampton,  Jr.,  of  Fairfax.  At  first 
it  was  thought  that  they  may  have  been  the  Austen  Jeter  and 
Susan  Hampton  Davis  of  Mississippi,  but  it  is  now  known  to  be 
merely  a  coincidence.  The  first  names  of  the  couple  mentioned 
in  the  letter  are  not  known. 

Austen  Jeter  Davis  (his  name  appears  in  the  Wilkinson  County 
records  as  Austen,  but  is  said  to  have  been  Andrew,  by  his  grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  Holly),  and  his  wife  Susannah  Hampton,  had  is- 
sue six  daughters  and  one  son,  as  follows:  1.  Susan,  married  a 
Mr.  Smith  and  had  sons  James  and  Hampton ;  2.  A  daughter 
married  a  Mr.  Lewis;  3.  Anne,  born  in  1808,  died  in  1826,  mar- 


384  GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

ried  Gen.  W.  L.  Brandon  of  "Arcoli,"  Wilkinson  Co.,  Miss.,  and 
had  two  sons  who  died  in  infancy ;  4.  Mary  A.,  born  in  1810,  mar- 
ried Sept.  15,  1825,  her  kinsman,  Col.  Fielding  Davis,  of  Wilkin- 
son County,  and  died  without  surviving  issue;  5.  Ellen,  married 
in  1825  Robert  Percy  of  Natchez  and  had  issue:  Dr.  Robert, 
Thomas,  Christine,  and  Hampton  Percy ;  6.  Rosa,  married  Robert 
Emmett  Brandon  and  died  shortly  after  the  birth  of  a  son,  who 
died  in  infancy;  7.  Henry  Hampton  Davis  of  Brunswick  Land- 
ing, who  married  his  adopted  sister  Letitia  Berry  of  Tennessee  and 
had  issue:  Henry  Hampton,  Jr.,  died  unmarried  in  191 1;  Sue 
Hampton,  married  Wm.  Holly ;  Margaret,  married  Wm.  Wood, 
and  Lee  Davis,  all  of  Brunswick  Landing,  Miss. 

The  Fielding  Davis  Family. 

Fielding  Davis,  born  1770-75  in  Spotsylvania,  Virginia,  is 
thought  to  have  died  in  Mississippi  some  time  after  1802.  He  was 
living  in  Kentucky  when  his  son  Fielding,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1801, 
but  died  prior  to  1824.  The  tombstone  of  his  wife,  Sabrina  Davis, 
owing  to  some  unknown  reason,  is  at  "Arcoli,"  the  Brandon  plan- 
tation in  Mississippi,  though  it  is  known  that  she  is  not  buried 
there.     The  inscription  on  it  is  as  follows : 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

SABRINA  DAVIS 

Died  March  17,  1817.     Aged  47. 


Here  where  the  silent  marble  seems  to  weep, 

Lies  a  fond  mother  and   faithful  friend, 

On  whose  kind  heart  did  all  the  virtues  keep  their 

sacred  seat 
And  with  each  other  blend. 
On  ways  of  Christian  Charity  she  stood 
And  then  resigned  her  pious  Soul  to  God. 

Fielding  and  Sabrina  Davis  had  issue  two  children  known  to 
the  present  generation,  and  possibly  others.  If  the  county  of  his 
residence  in  Mississippi  can  be  located,  doubtless  his  will  may  be 
found  among  the  records  and  the  names  of  all  his  children  ascer- 
tained; it  would  also  settle  beyond  a  doubt  his  baptismal  name. 


GENEALOGY  OF   THE  CARTER  FAMILY  385 

A  number  of  old  people  in  Mississippi  who  knew  his  son  Col. 
Fielding  Davis  of  Wilkinson  County,  say  the  father  and  son  bore 
the  same  name.  The  known  issue  of  Fielding  and  Sabrina  Davis 
was  a  son  and  a  daughter,  as  follows  : 

1  st.  Phoeby  Davis,  born  circa  i793-'95,  married  in  i8o8-'oo,  Wil- 
liam Ferguson,  a  wealthy  planter  of  Warren  County,  Mississippi, 
whose  home  was  on  the  Mississippi  River  below  Vicksburg.  They 
had  issue  one  son,  Thomas  Ferguson,  born  Jan.  25,  1810,  died 
Aug.  15,  1838,  and  is  buried  on  the  plantation.  He  married  Caro- 
line Downs  and  died  without  issue.  She  married  Benson  Blake 
and  had  a  son,  H.  L.  Blake,  who  now  owns  the  old  Ferguson 
place,  known  at  present  as  "Blakely." 

2nd.  Fielding  D'avis,  Jr.,  born  in  Kentucky  in  1801,  died  in 
New  Orleans  Oct.  29,  1859,  and  is  buried  at  Natchez,  the  home  of 
his  third  wife.  He  was  a  wealthy  and  prominent  planter  in  lower 
Mississippi  in  the  quarter  of  a  century  preceding  the  Civil  War. 
His  plantation  was  called  "Altop."  From  1824  until  1850  he 
appears  frequently  in  the  deed  records  of  Wilkinson  County,  as  he 
bought  and  sold  a  good  deal  of  land  in  that  county. 

Fielding  Davis  was  a  colonel  in  the  Mississippi  militia,  sheriff 
of  Wilkinson  county  in  i829-'34,  member  of  the  State  Legislature 
from  Issaquena  County  in  the  fifties,  and  U.  S.  Marshal  under 
President  Zachary  Taylor,  who  was  a  personal  friend  of  Col. 
Davis.  He  was  a  Mason  and  joined  Asylum  Lodge,  No.  63, 
Woodville,  Miss.,  by  demit,  Aug.  3,  1844,  but  the  lodge  from 
whence  he  came  does  not  appear  in  the  records. 

About  1850  Col.  Davis  purchased  a  large  river  plantation  in 
Issaquena  known  as  "Dunbarton,"  upon  which  he  had  fifty-two 
servants  (county  records)  ;  during  the  "reconstruction  days"  this 
plantation  was  sold  for  state  and  levee  taxes  to  some  "people  by 
the  name  of  Jeffards,  who  came  in  there  with  the  Carpet  Bag 
gang" 

Though  quite  the  opposite  of  a  "quarrelsome  man,"  Col.  Field- 
ing Davis  was  in  three  separate  duels,  in  each  of  which  he  killed 
his  opponent ;  they  were  with  a  Mr.  Lee,  a  lawyer,  who  attacked 
Col.  Davis  with  a  sword  cane ;  Dr.  Moore,  Mr.  Lee's  brother-in- 
law  ;  and  a  Mr.  Leigh,  the  eldest  son  of  Benjamin  Watkins  Leigh, 


386       GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY 

of  Virginia.     Bearing  upon  Col.  Davis'  conduct  in  these  duels  are 
the  following  extracts  from  letters  written  by  men  who  knew  him  : 

John  F.  Jenkins,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the  Chancery  Court,  Adams 
County,  Miss.,  says : 

''Col.  Davis  was  as  peaceable  a  man  as  could  be  found,  and  en- 
joyed a  reputation  for  an  amiable  temper  and  affectionate  dispo- 
sition both  to  friends  and  relatives,  but  the  fashion  of  the  times 
and  day  in  which  he  lived  embroiled  him  in  three  different  duels 
in  which  he  killed  his  opponents ;  but  no  blame  ever  attached  to 
him  among  his  friends  or  the  public  generally,  because  it  was 
generally  conceded  that  he  was  forced  into  these  unfortunate 
affairs." 

Samuel  W.  Brandon,  Esq.,  New  Orleans,  son  of  Gen.  W.  L. 
Brandon,  says : 

"Mr.  Foster,  who  married  a  sister  of  Col.  Davis'  wife,  was  a 
member  of  the  grand  jury  that  found  an  indictment  against  a  Mr. 
Lee,  a  young  lawyer,  for  gambling  at  cards.  When  Mr.  Foster 
entered  Mr.  Lee's  office  he  was  told  that  it  was  no  place  for  an 
informant.  Mr.  Foster  resented  the  insult  and  was  assaulted  by 
Lee.  For  this  act  Lee  was  denounced  by  Davis.  Lee  advanced 
on  Davis  with  a  drawn  sword  cane,  warned  not  to  advance,  con- 
tinued to  do  so,  and  was  shot  and  killed  by  a  pistol  ball  fired  by 
Davis.  Dr.  Moore,  a  brother-in-law  of  Lee,  was  for  some  cause 
challenged  by  Fielding  Davis.  The  weapons  were  'Yeagers'  or 
Mississippi  rifles.  My  father,  Gen.  Brandon,  was  Davis'  second. 
On  the  way  to  the  duelling  grounds  Col.  Davis  announced  his  in- 
tention of  firing  into  the  air.  My  father  remonstrated,  saying, 
'Don't  you  see  by  the  terms  of  the  duel  Mr.  Moore  intends  to  kill 
you  ?'  The  terms  referred  to  were,  after  the  word  'fire'  there  was 
no  time  limit  or  count  of  one,  two,  three,  but  each  could  continue 
to  fire  at  will.  Then  Col.  Davis  said,  T  will  kill  him  at  the  word 
"fire,"  '  which  he  did,  striking  him  just  above  the  left  hip  and 
severing  the  femoral  artery." 

The  duel  with  Mr.  Leigh  is  mentioned  in  Mr.  Henry  S.  Foote's 
"Bench  and  Bar  of  the  Southwest,"  but  the  details  of  the  affair 
have  not  been  furnished  me. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  CARTER  FAMILY  387 

Mr.  Brandon  also  says  of  Col.  Davis :  "He  was  a  gentleman  of 
the  old  school.  I  never  saw  him  wear  other  than  a  ruffled  bosom 
shirt.  He  was  not  only  genial,  but  jovial.  He  was  full  of  life 
and  a  great  practical  joker,  but  when  he  gave  offense  was  prompt 
to  make  'intent  cordial,'  so  much  so  that  he  was  regarded  as 
timid ;  but  when  occasion  demanded  he  was  glorious." 

Mrs.  H.  T.  Sharp,  Whitaker,  Miss.,  says  of  him :  "Col.  Fielding 
Davis  was  a  valued  friend  of  my  father  and  mother.  His  planta- 
tion was  not  far  from  theirs,  and  after  they  left  the  county  he  and 
his  family  returned  to  pay  his  old  friends  a  visit.  I  was  then  a 
child,  but  I  remember  distinctly  the  splendid  figure  of  Col.  Davis 
and  his  genial  and  polished  manners.  With  him  and  Mrs.  Davis 
were  their  daughter,  Rosa,  then  the  widow  of  a  Mr.  Mason,  who 
was  Attorney  General  of  Mississippi  during  his  life,  and  the  son 
of  Col.  and  Mrs.  Davis — Zachary  Taylor,  a  handsome,  spirited 
boy  much  younger  than  his  sister." 

Other  acquaintances  give  much  the  same  description  of  him. 

Col.  Davis  was  married  three  times,  as  follows : 

1  st.  On  Sept.  15,  1825,  to  his  cousin,  Mary  Davis,  daughter  of 
Jeter  and  Susan  Hampton  Davis,  who  died  without  surviving 
issue;  he  then  married  about  1831  Dorinda  Robinson,  of  Missis- 
sippi, who  died  in  1833  leaving  an  only  child — Mary  Davis,  born 
in  Woodville,  Miss.,  June  29,  1833,  died  in  Ft.  Worth,  Texas, 
March  15,  188 1.  It  is  only  through  this  daughter  that  Col.  Davis 
has  descendants  living  at  this  time.  His  third  wife  was  Lucinda 
Newman,  of  Natchez,  sister  of  Samuel  B.  Newman,  a  prominent 
and  wealthy  Mississippi  planter  and  merchant.  By  this  marriage 
there  were  two  children:  1st.  Rosa  Davis  (died  about  1865), 
whom  Mr.  John  F.  Jenkins  says  was  "the  most  beautiful  woman 
I  ever  saw."  She  married  first  about  i85i-'52  a  Mr.  Mason,  At- 
torney General  of  Mississippi,  who  died  shortly  afterward  with- 
out issue.  She  then  married  Charles  Balfour,  of  Natchez,  and 
had  one  daughter,  Rosebud  Balfour,  who  died  unmarried.  2nd. 
Zachary  Taylor  Davis,  who  died  about  1870  without  issue. 

Mary  Davis,  daughter  of  Col.  Fielding  Davis  and  his  second 
wife,  Dorinda  Robinson,  was  married  in  185 1  to  Christopher  B. 


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Loving,  who  died  of  yellow  fever  in  Carroll  County,  Mississippi, 
October  29,  1857,  leaving  three  daughters,  as  follows : 

1.  Fielding  Davis  Loving,  born  April  30,  1853,  in  Greenwood, 
Miss.,  died  Feb.  13,  1902,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

2.  Elizabeth  Watson  Loving,  born  Dec.  6,  1854,  in  Corrollton, 
Miss.,  died  in  New  York  city,  April  5,  1900. 

3.  Ida  Bennett  Loving,  born  March  28,  1858,  in  Carrollton, 
Miss.     Living  at  Ft.  Worth,  Texas. 

1.  Fielding  Davis  Loving,  married  in  1871  David  Crawford  at 
Carrollton,  Miss.  He  died  at  Ft.  Worth,  Texas,  in  1877.  They 
had  issue  one  child:  Ruby  Crawford,  born  in  1872,  who  married 
Edward  W.  Temple  in  1889  and  had  issue:  Mary  Davis  Temple, 
born  in  1891,  and  Frank  Ball  Temple,  born  in  1896. 

2.  Elizabeth  Watson  Loving,  married  1st  in  Sept.,  1876,  Gen. 
J.  J.  Byrne,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was  killed  by  Indians  in  Quitman  Can- 
yon, Texas,  Aug.  10,  1880.  They  had  issue,  Ida  DeLacy  Byrne, 
born  Sept.  9,  1877,  died  in  June,  1879.  ^n  June>  x883,  Mrs.  Byrne 
married  Max  Elser  and  had  issue:  Frank  Ball  Elser,  born  June 
9,  1885,  married  Dec.  28,  1910;  Rebecca  Elsbrey  Mix  of  Cranford, 
N.  J.,  and  has  issue  a  son,  Robert  Fielding  Elser,  born  Dec.  11, 
191 1 ;  and  Max  Elser,  Jr.,  born  June  10,  1890. 

3.  Ida  Bennett  Loving,  married  May  5,  1874,  John  W.  Turner, 
who  died  in  1892  at  Monterey,  Mexico.  They  had  issue  two 
daughters:  Alma  Loving  Turner,  born  in  1876,  married  Dec.  14, 
1900,  John  Phelps,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  has  issue :  Katharine 
Fielding  Phelps,  born  Mar.  29,  1905,  and  Alma  Eleanor  Phelps, 
born  Sept.  6,  1907,  and  Fielding  Davis  Turner,  born  Oct.  29,  1879, 
married  Josiah  Brown  Chase,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  Dec.  14,  1901,  and 
has  issue :  Elizabeth  Loving  Chase,  born  Sept.  29,  1902. 


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